English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 175 of 243
An artisan responsible for shaping the wire structures upon which carnival costumes are created.
The St Helena plover, Charadrius sanctaehelenae, endemic to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, and the national bird of the island.
Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
A visual model of an electronic representation of a three-dimensional object as defined geometrically by line segments.
An animal with wiry hair, such as a German Wirehaired Pointer, a Wirehaired Vizsla, or an American Wirehair.
A person who operates a radio transmitter on a ship or in an outpost, military unit, etc., in order to communicate over long distances.
Manipulation from behind the scenes, especially in political contexts; undue influence.
A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.
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 175. 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.