English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 7 of 243
The philosophical and artistic ideals put forward by the composer and theatre director Richard Wagner.
To make to conform to the philosophical and artistic ideals put forward by the composer and theatre director Richard Wagner.
A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
A sleeping car, often used in international trains in continental Europe; the Wagons-Lits company also ran dining cars.
A large cloth, usually canvas, that covers the bed of a wagon to keep dust off the load.
Any of various small passerine birds, principally of genus Motacilla, of the Old World, notable for their long tails.
Any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to producing a high percentage of oleaginous unsaturated fat.
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 7. 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.