English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 230 of 243
A bird of the species Zeledonia coronata, native to certain montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama.
A small passerine bird, Chamaea fasciata, found in scrub along the west coast of North America.
To agonize over (something); to debate a quandary or endeavor to come to a conclusion about a difficult issue.
To engage in a struggle with an opponent that benefits from the struggle even without winning it.
A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
A village in Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley parish, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2547).
A stunted or abortive cock; the smallest of a brood of domestic birds; any puny or imperfect creature.
Of or relating to Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), American architect who aimed to design structures that were in harmony with humanity and the environment.
A rare alkaloid found in the bark of the coral swirl, an apocynaceous tree from Southeast Asia (Wrightia antidysenterica).
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 230. 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.