English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 31 of 243
A program that dials every telephone number in a particular area searching for computers, or trying to guess passwords.
A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6157).
A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1874).
The act of searching for a Wi-Fi wireless network, usually from a moving vehicle, using a laptop or smartphone.
A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
An accidental counterpart of indecent exposure caused by a fault in someone's clothing (especially that of a performer) or by an error made while changing clothes.
A woman in charge of the procurement, maintenance, and inventory of the costumes and other clothing worn by performers.
The living quarters of a ship designated for the commissioned officers other than the captain.
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 31. 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.