English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 2 of 243
A quality of simple or solitary beauty, especially as expressed in various forms of Japanese art or culture.
A form of Morse code used to encode Japanese-language messages written in kana for transmission via telegram.
A member of the Women's Army Corps, the women's branch of the United States Army from 1942-1978.
Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, corny, cringy, uncool, messed up.
Product packaging that uses quirky and eye-catching text or images to attract the buyer.
The oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde in the presence of palladium(II) chloride as the catalyst.
A nickname for the American singer-songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist Michael Jackson (1958–2009).
To misread a text to a humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist humor.
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 2. 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.