English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 401 of 1086
The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
Any of a group of American comedians, first popular in the 1950s, who employed cynicism, satire, and observational comedy rather than inoffensive traditional jokes.
Leftist; in Indian politics, supposedly secularist and partaking in tokenism, or opposed to Hindu nationalism.
Of or pertaining to the Siculi (or Sicels), a pre-Roman people of southern Italy who colonized Sicily before it was Hellenized.
A male given name from Sanskrit used by followers of various faiths of India; notably, the personal name of Buddha.
A bet on some aspect of a game or competition that is not the main bet of the game or the prize of the competition.
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 401. 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.