English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 183 of 243
A town and civil parish with a town council in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8214).
Any of a group of naturally occurring chemical compounds occurring as secondary metabolites primarily in genera of the nightshade family, consisting of a steroid backbone bound to a lactone or one of its derivatives.
Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
A room for retirement from another room, as for example after dining; a drawing room.
Of or pertaining to George Wither (1588–1667), English poet, pamphleteer, satirist and writer of hymns.
The proposed situation where, in a classless society, people govern themselves as a commune without needing a government or law enforcement.
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 183. 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.