English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 69 of 243
Any of various Old World passerine birds in either of two families known for building nests of intricately woven vegetation.
A large village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6174).
The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
The first generation of the World Wide Web, characterized by separate static websites rather than continually-updated weblogs and social networking tools.
The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content, social networking, and online collaboration.
The predicted third generation of the World Wide Web, usually conjectured to include semantic tagging of content and decentralized protocols.
A computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web, chiefly by viewing web pages and following hyperlinks.
A small, usually transparent image added by an advertiser to a webpage (to track its popularity) or email message (to track when it is read).
The trade of a web designer; the creation of web pages, especially in terms of layout and presentation rather than functionality.
A single hypertext document (transmitted as HTML) on the World Wide Web, often hyperlinked to others, and intended to be viewed with a web browser.
A software program that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the World Wide Web.
A user of WebTV, a service formerly used to connect to the World Wide Web through a television rather than a computer.
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 69. 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.