English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 205 of 243
A semicircular key that fits partly into a circular segment keyseat, with the remainder fitting into a longitudinal slot keyway in the mating part.
Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Luzula, that have grass-like leaves.
Ellipsis of Woodstock Festival, an American rock music festival originally held in 1969 in New York state near Woodstock; (by extension) a large, influential gathering.
Relating to, or suggestive of, the hugely popular Woodstock music festival associated with 1960s counterculture.
A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area and the Port Stephens council area, New South Wales, Australia.
A set of three rules that invoke the conservation of orbital symmetry to predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions.
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 205. 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.