English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 26 of 36
To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
A visual model of an electronic representation of a three-dimensional object as defined geometrically by line segments.
A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF4609).
An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
A town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, at one time (1920-1975) in the burgh of Motherwell and Wishaw (OS grid ref NS7955).
A forked bone between the neck and breast of a bird consisting chiefly of the two clavicles fused at their median or lower end, regarded as a lucky charm in some countries.
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.
An outbred albino rat used in medical research, having a wide head, long ears, and a tail shorter than the rest of its body.
Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.
A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter W contains 1,759 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 36 pages, and you are currently viewing page 26. 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.