English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 190 of 243
A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9433).
A town and civil parish with a town council in Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP9236).
A nickname for a U.S. Air Force warrant officer, emphasizing their role as highly trusted technical experts who diagnose and solve complex technical problems.
A supposed chemical element, later found to be a mixture of copper, iron, lead, nickel, etc.
Of or pertaining to P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), English writer and humorist known for his eccentric half-witted characters and excellent prose.
The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form.
Used to warn someone that trouble will occur if that person does something: bad things will happen to.
Of or relating to Carl Woese (1928–2012), American microbiologist and biophysicist known for defining the Archaea in 1977 through pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy.
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 190. 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.