English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 219 of 243
A notional violin that plays tragic music for the afflicted; used in dismissive responses to complaints of woe.
Tired of the ways of the world; feeling apathetic or cynical due to one's life experiences.
A music genre that blends Western pop music with traditional folk music or world music.
One who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc.
The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction.
Anything particularly excellent of its kind; especially a goal in sports or a beautiful woman.
Sounds adjusted such that they sound as if heard in an acoustic location other than where originally created, generally by playing recordings in the new location and recording the playback at that location or by adjusting the audio depth of field.
A constructed international auxiliary language where the vocabulary is based on languages of different language families from different parts of the world, typically based on the most spoken languages. Examples include Lidepla, Pandunia and Globasa.
Any of a group of spatiotemporally related objects (i.e. objects in the same world, at the same time)
To make resistant to the various risks and hazards that may be encountered in the world.
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 219. 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.