English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 63 of 243
A three-dimensional structure representing an idealized foam of equal-sized bubbles, with two different shapes.
One of the four fundamental forces that is associated with nuclear decay. Its gauge bosons are the W⁺, W⁻ and Z⁰ particles.
Something (such as a skill, talent, characteristic, or property) at which someone, or something, is substandard.
One of a class of Germanic verbs which use a dental affix appended to the stem to indicate tense; a Germanic weak verb.
A phenomenon found in English pronunciation where the phonemes /ə/ (schwa) and /ɪ/ (the near-close near-front unrounded vowel) are not distinguished from eachother when unstressed, with the resulting ambiguous phoneme represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɨ/ (a close central rounded vowel).
Having or exhibiting a mind that lacks steadfastness, resoluteness or especially judgment; not strong-minded.
Any of several species of game fish, of the genus Cynoscion, found in North American waters.
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 63. 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.