English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 21 of 36
An airliner capable of seating seven or more passengers in a single row of economy seating, with two aisles or more.
Any device used to widen something; especially a drill designed to produce a hole greater than its own diameter.
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.
Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product, typically as an example for purposes of explaining concepts.
A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow.
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.
A village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD8056).
A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.
A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.
A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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.