English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 370 of 931
Diaphania nitidalis, a crambid moth with wide triangular wings, a serious agricultural pest.
A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6877).
A play in which a pitcher throws a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who has moved away from the base
The act of stealing from the pocket of a passerby; the crime committed by a pickpocket.
An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.
An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
A small pork pie, sometimes with additional fillings such as apple, pickles, or bacon.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 46,516 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 931 pages, and you are currently viewing page 370. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "P" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.