English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 1 of 243
The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double-u and written in the Latin script.
A member of the Women's Army Corps, the women's branch of the United States Army from 1942-1978.
Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, corny, cringy, uncool, messed up.
A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
plural of wage. It may take a singular verb. E.g. 'the wages of sin is death' (Romans 6:23 KJV)
Of, or characteristic of Richard Wagner, or his music; (by extension) of epic dimensions.
A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
Any of various small passerine birds, principally of genus Motacilla, of the Old World, notable for their long tails.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter W contains 12,113 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 243 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. 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 "W" 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.