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say it: WER-ee
wherry is a noun meaning "sailing barge used especially in East Anglia". It carries 2 recorded senses.
light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wherry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.