English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 319 of 1086
A basic quantity derived from the probability of a particular event occurring from a random variable.
The theoretical maximum information transfer rate of a communication channel, given a particular noise level.
A compulsory stopover at Shannon Airport that was imposed on airline flights from North America which intended to visit another airport in the Republic of Ireland (such as Dublin), which applied to all flights from 1986 to 1993, then half of all flights until its abolition in 2007.
Of or pertaining to Claude Shannon (1916-2001), American mathematician and founder of information theory.
An article of clothing too long to be designated as shorts, but too short to be considered pants.
An area, such as a suburb, consisting of mean, roughly-constructed dwellings inhabited by poor people.
The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the responses or choruses)
The imitation and trademark infringing of brands and goods of usually poor quality, particularly electronics made in China.
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 319. 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.