English Words: S
6,566 words · Page 47 of 132
A fanciful spelling of shop, chiefly used in the names of businesses to give an air of old-fashionedness.
An urban area of London in the borough of Hackney, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3382).
A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.
A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
An instance of falling short, of not meeting a quota, an obligation, or more generally any expected target.
Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, a slender body and a large head.
The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.
An electromagnetic wave with a relatively short wavelength; specifically, one with a wavelength generally between 10 and 100 metres, corresponding to a frequency between 3 and 30 megahertz.
A member of an Amerindian ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho.
A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 6,566 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 132 pages, and you are currently viewing page 47. 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.