English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 19 of 243
A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.
Any of three closely related species of moderately large macropods, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies.
An island with a small settlement in the River Crouch and Canewdon parish, Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ9494).
A construction material of pre-made boards used for walls and ceilings, usually a gypsum core with a paper surface.
A passerine bird of species Tichodroma muraria, closely related to the nuthatches, breeding in temperate Asia, found more widely in much of temperate Eurasia.
A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
One who takes advantage of the naïveté of another, particularly if the ulterior motive appears obvious.
Either of two groups of epsilonretrovirus, walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 1 (WEHV-1) and walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 2 (WEHV-2).
Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
A patch enabling a player to cheat by modifying the properties of walls, as by making them transparent or nonsolid.
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 19. 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.