English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 109 of 243
Anything, including measures which may be extreme or wrongful, that is required to achieve an objective.
An adherence to the Two Whatevers: We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave.
Apathetic meaninglessness; a state in which something does not matter or is not cared about.
Having a sexual orientation that is of no relevance, or no particular sexual orientation.
A substitute placename for an inhabited place, a city or town, with an unknown or unspecified name.
A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST7347).
A fine quality of English paper, with fine or coarse grain, used for etchings, engravings, etc.
plural of what; used as a stand-in to collectively pluralize arbitrary instances of things. Often used along with whys, hows, etc.
Rumours spread through social media as a source for information, usually through WhatsApp.
A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say)
Any object whose name one does not know or cannot remember or immediately bring to mind.
A village in Crich parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3354).
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 109. 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.