English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 196 of 243
A part of a home, typically a room, reserved specifically for the use of an adult woman, in which she can relax and pursue her interests.
A woman featured in a social media post shared by someone on Wednesday in which they share a woman (usually a celebrity) whom they consider attractive.
Synonym of queen regnant (“a female monarch, particularly in a monarchy in which she holds the title of king”)
A woman who either does not speak much or speaks only for a brief period of time.
An ordinary woman from the general public (especially one who lacks special expertise).
Women's clothing or a female presentation adopted by men or people assigned male at birth, likened to blackface.
Showing characteristics normally associated with women, such as warmth, compassion and determination.
To handle someone or something gently, or with very little effort (sometimes as opposed to manhandle).
The state or condition of being a woman, as contrasted with being a girl, man, boy, or nonbinary.
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 196. 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.