English Words: W

12,113 words · Page 116 of 243

plural of whereas

At which, or toward which.

Before, or in front of, which.

Behind which.

Below which.

wherebetweenconj

Between which.

By what, in which direction; how.

wheredjacontraction

where did you

A type of detective story in which significant focus is placed on the location in which the crime was committed.

Obsolete spelling of wherever.

Alternative spelling of wherefore.

Why, for what reason, because of what.

from which; whence

How, or in what way.

whereinafterconj

In which, afterward.

whereinbeforeconj

In which, before; in which (speech, book, etc.) occurred earlier.

whereinsoeveradv

In whatever way or aspect.

Into which.

whereinwhichconj

During which.

Location or position.

Other related places; wherever.

Of what.

On which, on what.

Onto which.

Out of which.

Over what.

plural of where

wheresoever; regardless of which place

wheresoe'erconj

Wheresoever.

Alternative form of wheresoe'er.

wheresoeverconj

wherever

wheresomeverconj

wherever

Than which.

wherethroughadv

Through which.

To what; to which place, whither?

Up to which point; until which time.

wheretowardconj

Toward which.

wheretowardsconj

Alternative form of wheretoward.

Under which or what.

Until what; until which.

Unto what or which; to what purpose.

Up which.

After which, in consequence.

Where ever; an emphatic form of where.

With which; with what.

wherewithalnoun

The ability and means required to accomplish some task.

Within which.

wherewithoutadv

Without which.

A surname.

Obsolete form of whereof.

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 116. 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.