English Words: W

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widdlenoun

Urine.

wideadj

Having a large physical extent from side to side.

widebandnoun

A communications transmission rate between that of narrowband and broadband.

widebodynoun

An airliner capable of seating seven or more passengers in a single row of economy seating, with two aisles or more.

widelyadv

In a wide manner; across a wide area.

widenverb

To become wide or wider.

widenernoun

Any device used to widen something; especially a drill designed to produce a hole greater than its own diameter.

wideningadj

Growing wider or farther apart.

wideoutnoun

A wide receiver.

wideradj

comparative form of wide: more wide

widescreennoun

A screen with a wider aspect ratio than the ordinary 35-millimeter frame, making more effective use of the human field of view and producing a more immersive view experience.

widespreadadj

Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

widestadj

superlative form of wide: most wide

widgetnoun

A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product, typically as an example for purposes of explaining concepts.

Widnesname

A town in Cheshire, England, originally in Lancashire.

widownoun

A person whose spouse is absent:

widowedadj

Whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.

widowernoun

A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow.

widowhoodnoun

The state or period of being a widow or widower.

widthnoun

The state of being wide.

Wiename

A surname from Korean.

Wiegandname

A surname.

Wielandname

A surname.

wieldverb

To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.

wieldernoun

A person who wields something, especially power

Wienname

A surname from German.

wienernoun

A type of sausage made from beef, chicken or pork.

Wiesbadenname

The capital city of Hesse, Germany, on the River Rhine.

Wiesename

A surname from German.

wifprep

with

wifenoun

A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.

wifesnoun

plural of wife

wifeyadj

Of, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife.

WiFiverb

Alternative form of Wi-Fi.

wignoun

A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.

Wiganname

A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.

wigginsnoun

The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety.

wiggleverb

To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle.

Wigglesworthname

A village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD8056).

wigglingnoun

The motion of something that wiggles.

wigglyadj

Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.

wightnoun

A living creature, especially a human being.

Wignername

A surname from Anglo-Saxon or other Germanic

wigsnoun

plural of wig

wigwamnoun

A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.

Wiinoun

A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.

wikinoun

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.

Wikianoun

A wiki hosted on the wiki farm Wikia.

Wikipedianame

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wilberforcename

An English surname from Old English, most common in Yorkshire.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter W contains 1,759 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 36 pages, and you are currently viewing page 21. 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.