English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 166 of 243
A large surplus of wine, especially as produced by the European Economic Community or its successors.
A marked and advertised road with special signs in a wine-producing region, used to promote local vineyards and other places of touristic interest.
The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar, advises guests on the choice of wines and serves them; a waiter who is also in charge of the wine cellar and other duties normally assigned to sommeliers.
A merger in which [ʍ] (the voiceless sound heard at the beginning of the word whine in a Scottish accent or several accents in the United States) becomes [w] (the sound heard at the beginning of the word wine); in accents where this merger occurs, whine and wine are homophones.
A habitual (or heavy) drinker of alcohol, especially wine, an excessive wine-drinker; a drunkard.
A member of the Churches of God General Conference (Winebrenner), an Evangelical Christian denomination in the United States originating in the revivalism and evangelistic efforts of John Winebrenner.
A winehouse (communal feasting hall where the lord and his retainers gathered for drinking, gift-giving, storytelling, celebration, etc.).
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 166. 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.