English Words: W
12,113 words · Page 74 of 243
A temporary marriage based on a contract, agreed to by both spouses, with renewal options.
A village and civil parish in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4347).
A market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9894).
In judicial reviews of administrative decisions: being unreasonable to the extent that no reasonable person or authority would make such a decision.
The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.
Spoilers for recent comic books (which are typically released each Wednesday).
Someone connected with Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
The very early morning; the early morning hours; the nighttime hours following midnight, when most people are asleep.
A non-Japanese person, stereotypically an unsociable white male, who is overly infatuated with Japanese culture; a loser Japanophile.
An obsessive interest in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally; Japanophilia to an excessive degree.
April 20th of any year, regarded informally as a time to celebrate marijuana consumption.
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 74. 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.