The invention relates to a drawer wall element for a drawer, on which an edge section of a drawer base can be placed so as to form a lateral drawer wall which adjoins said drawer base, said drawer wall element comprising a profiled wall section and a profiled base-receiving section. On said drawer wall element, a support surface is provided on the profiled base-receiving section for the purpose of supporting the underside of a drawer base that can be placed on said drawer wall element, said profiled wall section comprising a chamber section with a sheet-metal inner wall section (23) and a sheet-metal outer wall section (24) that are arranged opposite and so as to be spaced apart from one another by a width dimension of said drawer wall element, and that are connected by means of a connection section. According to the invention, the sheet-metal inner wall section (23) comprises a tab (28) on its lower edge (27), said tab being bent towards the sheet-metal outer wall section (24) and said profiled base-receiving section being supported thereupon.