English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 464 of 1086
A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.
Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
A Lithuanian sausage made from meat, fat, salt, pepper and garlic, traditionally pressed into a pig's stomach or bladder.
A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
The amount of skill required to master some activity (especially a game or character); the maximum possible skill.
The minimum amount of skill required to be considered competent at some game or activity.
A large and heavy saucepan or frying pan with legs and, usually, a long handle designed for heating food in a fireplace.
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 464. 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.