English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 118 of 243
An island of Island County, Washington, United States, the largest island in the state.
Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
An approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a “glorious present”.
A section of computer code in which an instruction or group of instructions is repeated only while a certain condition continues to be met.
While one is doing that; while one is carrying out that action; suggesting another action one could accomplish at the same time.
In the process of trying to achieve something, one's aspirations may be realized too late.
Said when a person bends over near the speaker, with the implication that the addressee should perform oral sex on the speaker.
Passing; temporal; temporary; not lasting; not permanent; transient; transitory; not eternal.
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 118. 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.