English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 30 of 36
An early station wagon or estate car whose rear bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
A town and civil parish with a town council in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7673).
Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.
Ellipsis of Woodstock Festival, an American rock music festival originally held in 1969 in New York state near Woodstock; (by extension) a large, influential gathering.
A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area and the Port Stephens council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
The crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood.
The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
An unwashed, unemployed moocher who enjoys traveling to festivals and crashes at other people's houses.
A member of a fictional race of tall, hairy bipeds in the universe of the Star Wars motion pictures.
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 30. 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.