English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 13 of 36
A locality and site of a medieval village in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7320).
Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
A surname from Old English possibly deriving from the Old English word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.
A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4073).
The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well.
The quality or state of being in good health (sometimes emphasizing both health and safety); mental and physical soundness.
Well. Typically used to express exasperation, a matter-of-fact or unenthusiastic attitude, or helpless acceptance of something surprising.
A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2207).
A village and civil parish in Welwyn Hatfield borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2316).
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter W contains 1,759 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 36 pages, and you are currently viewing page 13. 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.