English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 182 of 243
A conventional way of attributing credit to somebody whose ideas or works one is adapting or parodying.
With eager anticipation and enthusiasm, especially regarding the acceptance of an invitation.
Enhanced; improved; said of a new competing product or service compared to an existing one.
Extremely well; in an exceptional, noteworthy, or extraordinary manner.
Indicating that one's close associates prove more adversarial than one's opponents.
In a state of being unprepared, powerless, or idle; in any case, getting nothing done.
In real life as seen by oneself, as opposed to in a picture or according to someone else's description.
used to indicate a book has been legally published or is entitled to special privileges, e.g., due to a royal monopoly
Used as a mild apology for following remark, which could otherwise be taken as disrespectful.
Even with an optimistic and charitable outlook; used to indicate the intractability of a problem.
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 182. 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.