English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 142 of 243
A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and silicon.
A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
A player who stands behind the batsman’s wicket ready to catch the ball, or to stump the batsman.
A village in Welford parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3971).
Any of the whitish lines visible in the papules of lichen planus and other dermatoses, typically in the oral mucosa.
Lighthouse-keeper's assistant, whose responsibilities typically included the tending and trimming of wicks for the light.
A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.
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 142. 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.