English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 223 of 243
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9400).
A solution or scenario which combines the disadvantages of two opposed prior solutions, often having been intended to combine their benefits instead.
Any situation or conclusion which could not be any worse; the worst possible outcome.
A village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3026).
A form of congenital suprabulbar paresis associated with cerebral palsy.
Now chiefly as the second element in the names of plants: a plant used for food or medicine.
(Knowledge of) the medical usage of worts, of herbal remedies (and related magic); herblore.
A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, formerly in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY9777).
"More money = better than". One who has more money is of greater value than one who has less.
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 223. 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.