Someone (not necessarily an incel) with high writing skills and verbal intelligence, often portrayed as rivals to the shape rotators (who have stronger mathematical and technical skills).

wordcountnoun

Alternative form of word count.

wordcraftnoun

Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

wordernoun

Someone who words something a certain way; a turner of phrases.

wordfactnoun

A supposed fact that is published by way of propaganda, so that readers assume it to be true.

wordfastadj

True to one's word, keeping one's word.

wordfestnoun

A literary event for writers.

wordfilternoun

Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.

wordfinaladj

Occurring at the end of a word.

wordfindernoun

Someone who finds words.

wordfindingnoun

The process of finding the correct word when speaking or writing.

wordflownoun

A flow of words.

wordformnoun

Any of the forms of a word (for example, for the lemma or lexeme get, they include get, gets, getting, got, and gotten).

wordformsnoun

plural of wordform

wordfuladj

Full of words; wordy; talkative; verbose

wordfulnessnoun

Wordiness; verbosity; verboseness.

wordhoardnoun

Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.

wordhoodnoun

The quality of being a word.

wordienoun

Someone interested in words; especially, one enthusiastic about the study of word use but not bent on being pedantic about usage prescription.

wordifyverb

To convert into a word; to articulate into words.

wordilyadv

In a wordy manner; using too many words.

wordinessnoun

The excessive, often unnecessary, use of words.

wordingnoun

A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.

wordinitialadj

Occurring at the beginning of a word.

wordishadj

Of or pertaining to words; verbal; wordy.

wordishlyadv

In a wordish manner.

wordishnessnoun

The state of being wordish.

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 211. 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.

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