Word Confusion: Wander versus Wonder

Plural for the noun: wanders
Gerund: wandering

Third person present verb: wanders
Past tense or past participle: wandered
Present participle: wandering

Plural for the noun: wonders
Gerund: wondering

Third person present verb: wonders
Past tense or past participle: wondered
Present participle: wondering

[Mechanics] The drift of a gyroscope or a similar device

Verb, intransitive:
Walk, ramble, or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimless way

• Move slowly away from a fixed point or place
• [Of a road or river] Wind with gentle twists and turns in a particular direction
  • Meander
• Be unfaithful to one’s spouse or regular sexual partner

To extend in an irregular course or direction

To move, pass, or turn idly, as the hand or the eyes

[Of the mind, thoughts, desires, etc.] To take one direction or another without conscious intent or control

To stray from a path, place, companions, etc.

To deviate in conduct, belief, etc.

• Err
• Go astray

Verb, transitive:
Move or travel slowly through or over a place or area

Noun:
A feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable

• The quality of a person or thing that causes wonder
• A strange or remarkable person, thing, or event
• Having remarkable properties or abilities
• [In singular noun] A surprising event or situation

Verb, intransitive:
Desire or be curious to know something

• Used to express a polite question or request
• Feel doubt

Feel admiration and amazement

• Marvel
• Be surprised

Verb, transitive:
To speculate curiously or be curious about

• Be curious to know

To feel wonder at

Let’s go for a wander round the shops.

She only goes for a wander when she’s upset.

“Transport wander may also occur when a gyroscope is transported from one point on the Earth to another” (Apparent).

Verb, intransitive:
He wandered aimlessly through the narrow streets.

Please don’t wander off again.

His attention had wandered from the lecture.

The car wandered from side to side, leaving me wonder if the driver was drunk.

Helen didn’t know how to tell her sister that her husband wandered.

The foothills wandered off to the south.

Let me not wander from Thy Commandments.

During the storm the ship wandered from its course.

Verb, transitive:
She found her wandering the streets.

Derrick wandered down the path.

Stevie had a wandering eye, in more ways than one.

Polyester was a wonder fabric when it first came out.

Trigger was one of the wonder horses in Hollywood.

Noun:
He had stood in front of it, observing the intricacy of the ironwork with the wonder of a child.

Athens was a place of wonder and beauty.

The electric trolley car was looked upon as the wonder of the age.

Penicillin was and still is a wonder drug.

It is a wonder that losses were not much greater.

Verb, intransitive:
How many times have I written that, I wonder?

I can’t help wondering how Stasia and Katie are feeling.

I wonder whether you have thought more about it?

Patsy had wondered about such a marriage.

People stood by and wondered at such bravery.

I looked up at the Eiffel Tower with a wondering look on my face.

If I feel compassion for her, it is not to be wondered at.

Verb, transitive:
Kenny had to wonder what had happened to me.

I wonder that you went.

I wondered what kind of costume she would wear.

I wondered why I said that.