English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 108 of 243
Used to indicate that a specified or implied action cannot succeed or offers no advantage if successful
What's wrong with; what's the problem or matter with. Said to express that the behaviour of someone, or operation of something, is out of the ordinary or problematic.
Precisely what the situation really is or what the facts truly are; the true state of things.
Used to someone what alcoholic beverage they would like to drink: what drink would you like to have?
A woman whose identity is unknown or forgotten (especially when better-known to the listener).
A woman whose identity is unknown or forgotten (especially when better-known to the listener).
A man whose identity is unknown or forgotten (especially when better-known to the listener).
A man whose identity is unknown or forgotten (especially when better-known to the listener).
A person whose identity is unknown or forgotten (especially when better-known to the listener).
A person whose identity is unknown or forgotten (especially when better-known to the listener).
Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one's opponent of similar or worse faults.
A logical fallacy where criticisms are deflected by raising unrelated criticisms of the opposite side.
A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.
Ellipsis of Whatcom Falls: a waterfall in Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, United States.
One of 39 counties in Washington, United States. County seat: Bellingham. It is next to the Canadian border.
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 108. 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.