English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 17 of 243
A village and civil parish (served by Burrator Parish Council) in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5369).
A group of students who walk to school chaperoned by two adults (the "driver" leading and the "conductor" following), according to a fixed route with designated "bus stops" where further students can join the group.
Corresponding to an unwinnable game state, where the player can still act in the game world but victory is impossible.
Any of various species of shark that move by ‘walking’ their fins across the sea bed, especially Hemiscyllium ocellatum (epaulette shark) or Hemiscyllium halmahera.
An adventure game focused on gradual exploration and discovery through observation, with little in the way of action.
A person with very pale skin, most likely of Caucasian origin, who is predisposed to developing skin cancer.
A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.
A person employed to walk along a river and remove objects from the water, check the banks for damage, 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 17. 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.