English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 27 of 36
The practice of witches; magic, sorcery, or the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
A town and civil parish with a town council in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8214).
Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
The part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades; in many species the highest point of the body and the standard place to measure the animal's height.
To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0315).
Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
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 27. 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.