Why is it der Wilderer?

Wilderer ends in -er, and most nouns ending in -er are masculine: in a German dictionary, 86% of them take der.

All nouns ending in -er
Sense 1
der

Meaning

[1] Hunting: a person who illegally kept wild

[1] Jagd: eine Person, die illegal Wild erlegt

Examples

[1] Wilders sometimes play a role in home novels

[1] In Heimatromanen spielen Wilderer manchmal eine Rolle.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Wilderer die Wilderer
Genitiv des Wilderers der Wilderer
Dativ dem Wilderer den Wilderern
Akkusativ den Wilderer die Wilderer

Pronunciation

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