English Words: W

1,759 words · Page 36 of 36

Wynnename

A male given name from Welsh.

wynternoun

Obsolete spelling of winter.

WYOphrase

Initialism of what you on (“what are your plans? what are you up to?”).

Wyomingname

A state of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Cheyenne.

wyrenoun

Obsolete spelling of wire.

WYSIWYGphrase

Acronym of what you see is what you get.

wythenoun

A continuous vertical section of masonry, one unit in thickness.

wyvernnoun

A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.

Württembergname

A cultural region in southwestern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, roughly corresponding to Swabia.

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 36. 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 9 of 9 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 9 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.