English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 159 of 243
A suburban town and the principal business area in the borough of Merton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2470).
A village and civil parish (served by Wimblington and Stonea Parish Council) in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF4192).
A picture book containing large drawings of detailed scenes full of people, animals, and objects.
A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
A theoretical superheavy dark matter particle, trillions of times more massive than other proposed types of dark matter.
An electrostatic generator with two large contra-rotating discs mounted in a vertical plane, two crossed bars with metallic brushes, and a spark gap formed by two metal spheres.
To persuade someone, gain someone's support, or make someone understand the truth or validity of something.
To achieve a portion of a goal, but fail to achieve the entire goal.
A spiced British tonic wine, popular in Jamaica and some other former British colonies.
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 159. 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.