English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 26 of 132
To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
A person who secedes or supports secession from a political union or an alliance or organisation.
Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
The process or state of being seconded, the temporary transfer of a person from their normal duty to another assignment.
The transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions.
The fact or process of securitizing assets; the conversion of loans into securities, usually in order to sell them on to other investors.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 pages, and you are currently viewing page 26. 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.