English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 388 of 1086
A kind of natural grassland with low rainfall, less dry than a desert and capable of supporting perennial grasses and shrubs.
A musical instrument resembling a harmonium, used to provide a droning accompaniment in Indian classical music.
Relating or characteristic of the works of Soviet-born American writer Gary Shteyngart.
Initialism of (when the) shit hits the fan: used among survivalists to refer to an apocalyptic event.
A fur hat, usually worn by some married Haredi Jewish men on Shabbat and during Jewish holidays and other festive occasions.
An extinct Hebrew-script variant of Provençal used by Jews in France, also called Judeo-Provençal or Judeo-Comtadine.
A prophet of Islam who prophesied to the Midianites, sometimes identified with the Biblical Jethro.
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 388. 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.