English Words: W
1,759 words · Page 4 of 36
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3066).
A chain of large, discount department stores (most of which also sell groceries), originating in the United States and later spreading to several other countries.
An English habitational surname from Old English from either of two places in Norfolk and Suffolk.
A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
A member of a German-speaking community in Alpine Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and Austria.
An Irish surname transferred from the nickname of Anglo-Norman origin, meaning Briton or foreigner. Also a translation of Breathnach, with the same meaning.
A civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, which includes Great Walsingham and Little Walsingham (OS grid ref TF9336).
The principal town of the borough of Waltham Forest, Greater London, England, and the borough's administrative headquarters. (OS grid ref TQ3789).
Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together, formerly used by Native American peoples of eastern North America for various purposes including as jewellery and money, and for record-keeping; (countable, archaic) one such bead.
A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
A locality in the Armidale council area and the Inverell council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A city and territorial authority in Manawatū-Whanganui region, on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
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 4. 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.