English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 129 of 243
Any of the passerine birds of the family Zosteropidae, native to Africa, Asia, and Australasia, typically having a ring of tiny white feathers around their eyes.
A subspecies of Vulpes vulpes endemic to India, Pakistan, and surrounding regions.
A goose that has bright orange legs and mouse-coloured upper wing-coverts, Anser albifrons.
An extremely exciting and nerve-racking ride at an amusement park, etc., where one's hands grip on so tightly that the knuckles appear white.
Streptocitta albicollis, a common species of myna often confused for a magpie due to its coloration, endemic to Indonesia.
Buteo leucorrhous, a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family found in South America.
Any dolphin of the species Leucopleurus acutus and Aethalodelphis obliquidens which have conspicuous white markings on the sides of their body.
Buteo albicaudatus, a species of hawk found in tropical or subtropical environments across the Americas
Buteo albigula, a species of hawk living in the Andes mountains of South America
Brotogeris versicolurus, a species of parakeet native to the Amazon River, but has since been exported to many more places, where it now has stable free-roaming populations.
A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.
The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Sorbus subg. Aria (now Aria edulis), native to Eurasia, especially common whitebeam.
A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.
A collaborative discussion over the Internet in which participants can write and draw on a shared space resembling a whiteboard.
A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland, using violent tactics to defend tenant farmers' land rights for subsistence farming.
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 129. 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.