English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 26 of 243
An ostentatiously large or expensive truck or SUV that is used to bolster one's status or ego.
A person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles and attitudes; a gangster poseur.
A person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles and attitudes; a gangster poseur.
A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, close to the border with South Lanarkshire (OS grid ref NS8713).
A style of contraction (such as want to into wanna, or going to into gonna) that may or may not be possible depending on the sense of to.
Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
Any of a set of orthogonal functions used in solid-state physics; they are the localized molecular orbitals of crystalline systems.
A piece of media produced outside of Japan that adopts a style heavily inspired by anime.
A suburban area of the borough of Redbridge, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4088).
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
An advertisement (in a newspaper, magazine, etc.) for something wanted; a classified advertisement.
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 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.