English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 3 of 243
To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society.
The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
A suburban area in Brough with St Giles parish, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2098).
A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, notably of the Scottish patriot William Wallace.
A historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, now part of southern Romania.
A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.
A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
A town and civil parish with a town council in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU6089).
A suburban town in the borough of Sutton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ294645).
A Romance language traditionally spoken in parts of southern Belgium and a small strip of northern France (around Givet).
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 3. 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.