English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 204 of 243
An accumulation of wood and debris from vegetation that slows the flow of a river or stream.
A lark, Lullula arborea, the only member of the genus Lullula, found in western Eurasia and northern Africa.
A town and civil parish with a town council in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7673).
A line of trees on the edge of a field or other open space marking the beginning of a woods or forest.
Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.
A king's officer who looked after woods and the game in them, arranged woodmotes, arrested trespassers, etc.
A court, presided over by verderers and the warden, that dealt with those who had broken the laws of the forest.
Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.
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 204. 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.