English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 21 of 243
A fast-paced sport, a version of volleyball played in a racquetball court, where it is legal to hit the ball off of the walls.
A Ngumbin Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken in and around Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
A chain of large, discount department stores (most of which also sell groceries), originating in the United States and later spreading to several other countries.
A person with strange habits or mannerisms, typically low income and sometimes obese, shopping at Walmart.
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8013).
An English habitational surname from Old English from either of two places in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Of or relating to Robert Walpole (1676–1745), British statesman generally regarded as having been the first British prime minister.
Walpurgisnacht ("Walpurga's night"), a feast of witchcraft in German folklore, observed on 30 April.
Walpurgis night, a feast of witchcraft in German folklore; any orgiastic or bacchanalian party.
A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
A moustache that resembles the whiskers of a walrus in being thick and bushy and drooping over the mouth
The operator := that assigns values to variables in certain programming languages, such as Python.
A village in Todmorden parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9322).
A member of a German-speaking community in Alpine Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and Austria.
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 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.