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wolfer

noun

wolfer is a noun meaning “One who devours food greedily; one who wolfs down food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-O-L-F-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of wolfer is wolfers.

What does wolfer mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who devours food greedily; one who wolfs down food.

  2. 2

    A wolf-hunter, especially one who hunts for bounty.

  3. 3

    Alternative form of wolver.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce wolfer?

    Wolfer has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of wolfer

    • wolfers plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is wolfer?

    Wolfer appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does wolfer come from?

    From wolf (verb) + -er.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).