WAFER
What does "WAFER" mean?
A thin, crisp biscuit, or any very thin flat disc of material.
Meanings
- A thin, light, crisp biscuit often eaten with ice cream or sweets. She layered cream between two vanilla wafers.
- A thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Christian Eucharist. The priest placed a communion wafer on each outstretched palm. technical
- A thin slice of semiconductor material on which microchips are fabricated. Each silicon wafer yields hundreds of identical chips. technical
Did you know?
- The 'wafer' that runs your phone is a polished disc of silicon about 300 mm (12 inches) across, and a single one is sliced into hundreds of separate microchips.
Word origin
From Anglo-Norman 'wafre' and Middle Dutch 'wafel' (honeycomb-patterned cake), the same Germanic root that gives us 'waffle'.
Remember it
WAFER and WAFFLE share the same Dutch root - picture a wafer as a waffle pressed paper-thin until the squares almost vanish.
A little poem
Thin as a held breath -
biscuit, host, or chip of glass:
the world likes things flat.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the engineer and the priest what they make. They both said the same thing - a wafer that decides what gets believed.
What it teaches
The thinnest things carry the heaviest jobs: faith, dessert, and the brain of every machine.
Quick facts
What does WAFER mean?
A thin, crisp biscuit, or any very thin flat disc of material.
Is WAFER a valid word?
Yes — WAFER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WAFER?
WAFER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does WAFER come from?
From Anglo-Norman 'wafre' and Middle Dutch 'wafel' (honeycomb-patterned cake), the same Germanic root that gives us 'waffle'.
What can WAFER teach us?
The thinnest things carry the heaviest jobs: faith, dessert, and the brain of every machine.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.