English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 19 of 1086
Carnegiea gigantea, a large cactus native to the Sonoran Desert and characterized by its "arms".
Female equivalent of Saguenean: a female Saguenaean, a female native or inhabitant of the Saguenay.
One of the two territories (the other being Río de Oro) that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969.
A cloak, worn in ancient times by the Gauls, early Germans, and Roman soldiers, made of a rectangular piece of (usually red) coarse cloth and fastened on the right shoulder.
In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the fifth and last of the Pandava brothers; son of Madri and Pandu.
A region of Africa, between the Sahara to the north and a more humid zone (Sudan) to the south.
The condition of being a person of rank, especially a British person, in colonial India.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 54,294 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1,086 pages, and you are currently viewing page 19. 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 "S" 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.