English Words: S
54,294 words · Page 481 of 1086
Nonce variation of the word slap, usually used to indicate a series of small slapping actions.
A children's game in which the players position themselves in a circle and each place one hand in the centre (normally on top of a table or other item of furniture). An ordinal number or another word such as "last" or "penultimate" is then called out by someone and whoever draws their hand away from the circle at that position has their hand slapped by the other players.
A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP9320).
A genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex (typically men).
The batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging average of a batter or team when expressed together, separated by slashes.
To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
The phenomenon whereby a site is overwhelmed by traffic after being linked to by a site with a larger audience.
A horror movie which depicts gory, murderous violence, often including scenes of torture.
A tag in a posted message, starting with the / symbol and serving as a keyword to specify a topic or metadata.
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 481. 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.