English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 367 of 1086
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
A visitor to a coastal area who looks or acts out of place; especially an awkward or annoying tourist.
A fluffy pie made from molasses with a crumb cake top, traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch.
To record footage in the absence of (one of the actors), with the intention of editing in their sequences at a later stage.
To take hasty, immediate action with serious consequences, without first adequately investigating the situation.
To discharge a firearm while it is held near the hip, without taking time to aim via the gunsights.
To speak confidently and unhesitantly but without careful forethought or a reliable knowledge of important facts pertaining to the subject matter.
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 367. 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.