English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 24 of 243
That wanderlusts (“feels a strong impulse or longing to travel; roams or travels widely”)
Synonym of Wanderwort (“a loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices”).
A loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices.
A locality in the Armidale council area and the Inverell council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
The use of a wand (or sometimes a similar instrument or tool, even an extended finger) in practicing magic, casting spells, or performing a mystical or religious ritual or ceremony (e.g. drawing symbols such as pentagrams in the air, as in Wicca).
An Iranian language spoken in Northern Balochistan considered by linguists as a distinct dialect of Pashto, sometimes considered a language due to its close relation to the Pamir languages.
A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring.
A square tile with a colour on each side. Possible sets of such tiles are studied to determine whether they can tile the plane (arranged with like colours touching, and without rotations or reflections) and whether this can be done in a periodic pattern.
A city and territorial authority in Manawatū-Whanganui region, on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
A type of phone call scam in which the caller dials a random number and immediately hangs up in the hopes that the recipient will call back.
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 24. 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.