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wowsers

interjection, noun

wowsers is an interjection meaning “Synonym of wow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-O-W-S-E-R-S, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does wowsers mean?

interjection

  1. 1

    Synonym of wow.

noun

  1. 1

    plural of wowser (a form of wowser)

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

Forms of wowsers

  • wowser
  • wowzer
  • wowzers

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

How common is wowsers?

Wowsers appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).

Wowsers in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchnom de Dieu, nom d'un gadget
Germanach du liebe Zeit, ach du lieber Gadget
Spanishrecórcholis, por mil gadgets, por todos mis gadgets, por mis gadgets

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does wowsers come from?

From wow + -s + -ers.

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