English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 290 of 1086
To give one's close attention to, especially as a goal, objective, or other object of special interest.
To make publicly clear one's position with reference to a particular idea or philosophy, or what one can do.
An established expression whose wording is subject to little or no variation, and which may or may not be idiomatic.
A flat triangular piece of plastic or other material, having corners of precise angles, used in technical drawing
To achieve something amazing but to a nearly-impossible degree; to do something which brings great public acclaim.
Of a device setting, a strategy, etc.: configured a certain way and then left without further attention.
A mathematical notation for describing a set by specifying the properties that its members must satisfy.
The practice of travelling to real-world locations featured as filming sites in movies, television shows, or other media.
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 290. 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.