4-letter words containing W
Embark on an exploration of 4-letter words that contain the letter W. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate W within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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what | 10 | Something; thing; stuff. | - |
know | 11 | accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne |
with | 10 | denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like. | I will buy with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. |
want | 7 | have need of | This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner |
will | 7 | a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | - |
well | 7 | in a manner affording benefit or advantage | she married well |
when | 10 | - | - |
were | 7 | - | - |
down | 8 | English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) | - |
work | 11 | make uniform | work the clay until it is soft |
wait | 7 | the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something) | the wait was an ordeal for him |
away | 10 | out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) | pushed all doubts away |
show | 10 | provide evidence for | The blood test showed that he was the father |
went | 7 | - | - |
wife | 10 | a married woman; a man's partner in marriage | - |
knew | 11 | - | - |
week | 11 | hours or days of work in a calendar week | they worked a 40-hour week |
word | 8 | the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) | - |
wish | 10 | prefer or wish to do something | - |
walk | 11 | the act of traveling by foot | walking is a healthy form of exercise |
town | 7 | an administrative division of a county | the town is responsible for snow removal |
news | 7 | information about recent and important events | they awaited news of the outcome |
whoa | 10 | - | - |
wake | 11 | the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured |
wear | 7 | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | - |
blow | 9 | make a mess of, destroy or ruin | - |
wall | 7 | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
slow | 7 | cause to proceed more slowly | The illness slowed him down |
wine | 7 | a red as dark as red wine | - |
grow | 8 | pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | - |
wind | 8 | raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | - |
whom | 12 | The objective case of who. | - |
warm | 9 | easily aroused or excited | a warm temper |
wild | 8 | in an uncontrolled and rampant manner | - |
ways | 10 | structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | - |
wash | 10 | the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water |
west | 7 | United States film actress (1892-1980) | - |
view | 10 | the act of looking or seeing or observing | he tried to get a better view of it |
draw | 8 | thread on or as if on a string | - |
snow | 7 | English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980) | - |
weak | 11 | deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | weak colors |
crew | 9 | an informal body of friends | - |
swim | 9 | the act of swimming | it was the swimming they enjoyed most |
grew | 8 | - | - |
wave | 10 | signal with the hands or nod | She waved to her friends |
wood | 8 | United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) | - |
wide | 8 | not on target | the kick was wide |
woke | 11 | - | - |
wise | 7 | United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949) | - |
dawn | 8 | become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | It dawned on him that she had betrayed him |
wolf | 10 | a cruelly rapacious person | - |
warn | 7 | advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | I warned him not to go too far |
laws | 7 | the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit | - |
blew | 9 | - | - |
wing | 8 | travel through the air; be airborne | - |
wipe | 9 | rub with a circular motion | wipe the blackboard |
bowl | 9 | a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco | - |
wire | 7 | a message transmitted by telegraph | - |
drew | 8 | United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862) | - |
flow | 10 | something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors |
flew | 10 | - | - |
wore | 7 | - | - |
wrap | 9 | arrange or fold as a cover or protection | wrap the baby before taking her out |
weil | 7 | United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998) | - |
weed | 8 | street names for marijuana | - |
cows | 9 | domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | wait till the cows come home |
worn | 7 | showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | looking careworn as she bent over her mending |
ward | 8 | watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | - |
twin | 7 | being two identical | - |
worm | 9 | to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | - |
whip | 12 | beat severely with a whip or rod | - |
chew | 12 | a wad of something chewable as tobacco | - |
wont | 7 | an established custom | - |
lawn | 7 | a field of cultivated and mowed grass | - |
chow | 12 | informal terms for a meal | - |
shaw | 10 | United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885) | - |
crow | 9 | dwell on with satisfaction | - |
womb | 11 | a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | - |
hawk | 14 | a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar | - |
glow | 8 | light from nonthermal sources | - |
stew | 7 | be in a huff; be silent or sullen | - |
weep | 9 | shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain | - |
wade | 8 | English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945) | - |
swan | 7 | move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | - |
wage | 8 | carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe |
claw | 9 | a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | - |
swat | 7 | a sharp blow | - |
gown | 8 | outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions | - |
swap | 9 | an equal exchange | - |
whew | 13 | - | - |
pawn | 9 | leave as a guarantee in return for money | pawn your grandfather's gold watch |
twat | 7 | a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | - |
wimp | 11 | a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe | - |
wool | 7 | a fabric made from the hair of sheep | - |
sway | 10 | move back and forth or sideways | the tall building swayed |
hwan | 10 | - | - |
swam | 9 | - | - |
howl | 10 | emit long loud cries | howl with sorrow |
woof | 10 | the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | - |
jaws | 14 | - | - |
flaw | 10 | an imperfection in an object or machine | a flaw caused the crystal to shatter |
brew | 9 | drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | - |
wits | 7 | the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | he used his wits to get ahead |
whim | 12 | a sudden desire | - |
meow | 9 | the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) | - |
wink | 11 | a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | - |
phew | 12 | - | - |
wept | 9 | - | - |
wand | 8 | a ceremonial or emblematic staff | - |
warp | 9 | a shape distorted by twisting or folding | - |
wuss | 7 | a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | - |
brow | 9 | the arch of hair above each eye | - |
wasp | 9 | a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination | - |
wary | 10 | openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | - |
wham | 12 | hit hard | - |
twig | 8 | understand, usually after some initial difficulty | - |
weir | 7 | a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish | - |
whiz | 19 | make a soft swishing sound | - |
anew | 7 | again but in a new or different way | wanted to write the story anew |
wank | 11 | slang for masturbation | - |
wack | 13 | - | - |
swig | 8 | a large and hurried swallow | - |
sewn | 7 | fastened with stitches | - |
whee | 10 | - | - |
wail | 7 | emit long loud cries | wail in self-pity |
wilt | 7 | become limp | The flowers wilted |
awol | 7 | absent without permission | - |
plow | 9 | to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week |
newt | 7 | small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia | - |
swab | 9 | wash with a swab or a mop | swab the ship's decks |
twit | 7 | aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | - |
thaw | 10 | the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours |
wick | 13 | a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | - |
writ | 7 | (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer | - |
whit | 10 | a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | - |
kiwi | 11 | fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh | - |
stow | 7 | fill by packing tightly | stow the cart |
wisp | 9 | a flock of snipe | - |
yawn | 10 | an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | he could not suppress a yawn |
wart | 7 | (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus | - |
sown | 7 | sprinkled with seed | - |
lowe | 7 | - | - |
slew | 7 | move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | - |
lewd | 8 | suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | lewd pictures |
howe | 10 | United States editor (1920-1993) | - |
weld | 8 | European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | - |
dewy | 11 | wet with dew | - |
ware | 7 | spend extravagantly | - |
wavy | 13 | uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | - |
fowl | 10 | a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | - |
fawn | 10 | a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color | - |
spew | 9 | expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | - |
awry | 10 | turned or twisted to one side | with his necktie twisted awry |
wast | 7 | - | - |
swag | 8 | goods or money obtained illegally | - |
watt | 7 | a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm | - |
wawa | 10 | - | - |
nowt | 7 | - | - |
wean | 7 | gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk |
wino | 7 | a chronic drinker | - |
wynn | 10 | - | - |
wort | 7 | unfermented or fermenting malt | - |
awed | 8 | inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | awed by the silence |
gnaw | 8 | become ground down or deteriorate | - |
bawl | 9 | shout loudly and without restraint | - |
wiry | 10 | lean and sinewy | - |
waft | 10 | a long flag; often tapering | - |
whey | 13 | the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese | - |
wren | 7 | English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723) | - |
wane | 7 | a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | - |
whet | 10 | make keen or more acute | whet my appetite |
waxy | 17 | easily impressed or influenced | a waxy mind |
wily | 10 | marked by skill in deception | a wily old attorney |
swum | 9 | - | - |
nowy | 10 | - | - |
slaw | 7 | basically shredded cabbage | - |
hewn | 10 | cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel | a house built of hewn logs |
gawk | 12 | look with amazement; look stupidly | - |
wove | 10 | - | - |
twee | 7 | affectedly dainty or refined | - |
wile | 7 | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | - |
wads | 8 | a large number or amount | - |
skew | 11 | having an oblique or slanting direction or position | the picture was skew |
welt | 7 | beat severely with a whip or rod | - |
wald | 8 | - | - |
wold | 8 | a tract of open rolling country (especially upland) | - |
weta | 7 | - | - |
mews | 9 | street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings | she lives in a Chelsea mews |
wadi | 8 | gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season | - |
prow | 9 | front part of a vessel or aircraft | - |
chaw | 12 | a wad of something chewable as tobacco | - |
whap | 12 | hit hard | - |
craw | 9 | a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | - |
wert | 7 | - | - |
whop | 12 | hit hard | - |
cowl | 9 | protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine |
sawn | 7 | - | - |
swop | 9 | an equal exchange | - |
swot | 7 | study intensively, as before an exam | - |
waif | 10 | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned | - |
whig | 11 | a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories | - |
whir | 10 | make a soft swishing sound | the motor whirred |
waka | 11 | - | - |
mown | 9 | (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine | the smell of newly mown hay |
clew | 9 | roll into a ball | - |
dhow | 11 | a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs | - |
alow | 7 | - | - |
weal | 7 | a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | - |
jowl | 14 | the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | - |
gawp | 10 | look with amazement; look stupidly | - |
braw | 9 | brightly colored and showy | `braw' is a Scottish word |
wats | 7 | a telephone line;long distance service at fixed rates for fixed zones; an acronym for wide area telephone service | - |
ween | 7 | - | - |
wite | 7 | - | - |
scow | 9 | a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold | - |
shew | 10 | establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | - |
staw | 7 | - | - |
frow | 10 | - | - |
avow | 10 | admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | - |
bawd | 10 | a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | - |
wonk | 11 | an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | - |
thew | 10 | - | - |
waul | 7 | make high-pitched, whiney noises | - |
wale | 7 | a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | - |
wive | 10 | marry a woman, take a wife | - |
wend | 8 | direct one's course or way | wend your way through the crowds |
owie | 7 | - | - |
pwns | 9 | - | - |
mwah | 12 | - | - |
newb | 9 | - | - |
waah | 10 | - | - |
wazz | 25 | - | - |
yeow | 10 | - | - |
woah | 10 | - | - |
wiki | 11 | - | - |
wels | 7 | - | - |
awfy | 13 | - | - |
awks | 11 | - | - |
bawk | 13 | - | - |
fews | 10 | - | - |
eeew | 7 | - | - |
gaws | 8 | - | - |
hwyl | 13 | - | - |
howf | 13 | - | - |
howk | 14 | - | - |
hows | 10 | - | - |
iwis | 7 | - | - |
hawm | 12 | - | - |
haws | 10 | - | - |
hews | 10 | - | - |
kewl | 11 | - | - |
kows | 11 | - | - |
jows | 14 | - | - |
jews | 14 | - | - |
kawa | 11 | - | - |
kaws | 11 | - | - |
faws | 10 | - | - |
enew | 7 | - | - |
enow | 7 | - | - |
ewer | 7 | an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | - |
ewes | 7 | - | - |
ewks | 11 | - | - |
ewts | 7 | - | - |
gnow | 8 | - | - |
gowd | 9 | - | - |
gowf | 11 | - | - |
gowk | 12 | - | - |
gowl | 8 | - | - |
gawd | 9 | - | - |
lwei | 7 | 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza in Angola | - |
lowt | 7 | - | - |
lown | 7 | - | - |
lowp | 9 | - | - |
lows | 7 | - | - |
mawk | 13 | - | - |
mawn | 9 | - | - |
mawr | 9 | - | - |
maws | 9 | - | - |
lawk | 11 | - | - |
mowa | 9 | - | - |
mows | 9 | - | - |
mewl | 9 | cry weakly or softly | - |
clow | 9 | - | - |
cwms | 11 | - | - |
cowy | 12 | - | - |
cowp | 11 | - | - |
cowk | 13 | - | - |
cawk | 13 | - | - |
caws | 9 | - | - |
dowd | 9 | - | - |
dowf | 11 | - | - |
dowl | 8 | - | - |
dowp | 10 | - | - |
dows | 8 | - | - |
dowt | 8 | - | - |
dwam | 10 | - | - |
drow | 8 | - | - |
dawt | 8 | - | - |
deaw | 8 | - | - |
daws | 8 | - | - |
dawd | 9 | - | - |
dawk | 12 | - | - |
dews | 8 | - | - |
arew | 7 | - | - |
anow | 7 | - | - |
awny | 10 | having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses | - |
awns | 7 | - | - |
awls | 7 | - | - |
awes | 7 | - | - |
awee | 7 | - | - |
awdl | 8 | - | - |
arow | 7 | - | - |
adaw | 8 | - | - |
alew | 7 | - | - |
blaw | 9 | - | - |
bowr | 9 | - | - |
bows | 9 | - | - |
bawn | 9 | - | - |
bawr | 9 | - | - |
yows | 10 | - | - |
yowl | 10 | utter shrieks, as of cats | - |
yowe | 10 | - | - |
ywis | 10 | - | - |
wyte | 10 | - | - |
wyns | 10 | - | - |
wynd | 11 | - | - |
wyle | 10 | - | - |
wyes | 10 | - | - |
wych | 15 | - | - |
wull | 7 | - | - |
wudu | 8 | - | - |
wops | 9 | - | - |
woot | 7 | - | - |
woos | 7 | - | - |
woon | 7 | - | - |
wons | 7 | - | - |
wuds | 8 | - | - |
wows | 10 | - | - |
wowf | 13 | - | - |
wots | 7 | - | - |
wost | 7 | - | - |
yawy | 13 | - | - |
yews | 10 | - | - |
yaws | 10 | an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | - |
yawp | 12 | make a raucous noise | - |
yawl | 10 | a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | - |
tows | 7 | - | - |
towt | 7 | - | - |
towy | 10 | - | - |
trew | 7 | - | - |
tway | 10 | - | - |
twos | 7 | - | - |
twas | 7 | - | - |
trow | 7 | - | - |
twae | 7 | - | - |
twal | 7 | - | - |
tawa | 7 | - | - |
taws | 7 | - | - |
tawt | 7 | - | - |
tews | 7 | - | - |
wawe | 10 | - | - |
wawl | 10 | make high-pitched, whiney noises | - |
waws | 10 | - | - |
wate | 7 | - | - |
wauk | 11 | - | - |
waur | 7 | - | - |
webs | 9 | - | - |
weds | 8 | - | - |
weid | 8 | - | - |
weka | 11 | flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting | - |
welk | 11 | - | - |
weft | 10 | the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | - |
weet | 7 | - | - |
weel | 7 | - | - |
weem | 9 | - | - |
weer | 7 | - | - |
wees | 7 | - | - |
wemb | 11 | - | - |
wasm | 9 | - | - |
wakf | 14 | - | - |
wali | 7 | - | - |
waly | 10 | - | - |
wags | 8 | - | - |
waid | 8 | - | - |
wain | 7 | a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major | - |
wair | 7 | - | - |
wais | 7 | - | - |
wame | 9 | - | - |
wark | 11 | - | - |
wars | 7 | - | - |
wase | 7 | - | - |
wang | 8 | - | - |
wans | 7 | - | - |
wany | 10 | - | - |
waps | 9 | - | - |
waqf | 19 | - | - |
warb | 9 | - | - |
winn | 7 | - | - |
wins | 7 | - | - |
winy | 10 | having the taste of wine | a rich winy taste |
wiel | 7 | - | - |
wigs | 8 | - | - |
wili | 7 | - | - |
wock | 13 | - | - |
woes | 7 | - | - |
wofs | 10 | - | - |
wogs | 8 | - | - |
woks | 11 | - | - |
woad | 8 | a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant | - |
wiss | 7 | - | - |
wist | 7 | - | - |
wems | 9 | - | - |
wets | 7 | - | - |
wexe | 14 | - | - |
weys | 10 | - | - |
whae | 10 | - | - |
wena | 7 | - | - |
wens | 7 | - | - |
wero | 7 | - | - |
whot | 10 | - | - |
whow | 13 | - | - |
whup | 12 | - | - |
whys | 13 | - | - |
wice | 9 | - | - |
whid | 11 | - | - |
whin | 10 | small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | - |
whio | 10 | - | - |
wich | 12 | - | - |
waff | 13 | - | - |
vaws | 10 | - | - |
vows | 10 | - | - |
wabs | 9 | - | - |
wadd | 9 | - | - |
wadt | 8 | - | - |
wady | 11 | - | - |
waac | 9 | - | - |
vrow | 10 | - | - |
waes | 7 | - | - |
scaw | 9 | - | - |
saws | 7 | - | - |
shwa | 10 | a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables | - |
sews | 7 | - | - |
rews | 7 | - | - |
rows | 7 | - | - |
rowt | 7 | - | - |
sows | 7 | - | - |
sowp | 9 | - | - |
sowf | 10 | - | - |
sowl | 7 | - | - |
sowm | 9 | - | - |
spaw | 9 | - | - |
swey | 10 | - | - |
swiz | 16 | British slang for a swindle | - |
swob | 9 | wash with a swab or a mop | - |
swee | 7 | - | - |
swad | 8 | a bunch | a thick swad of plants |
skaw | 11 | a cape on the northernmost tip of Jutland between the Skagerrak and the Kattegatt | - |
snaw | 7 | - | - |
smew | 9 | smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia | - |
owed | 8 | - | - |
ower | 7 | - | - |
owes | 7 | - | - |
owls | 7 | - | - |
owly | 10 | - | - |
owns | 7 | - | - |
owre | 7 | - | - |
owse | 7 | - | - |
owts | 7 | - | - |
pews | 9 | - | - |
paws | 9 | - | - |
pawa | 9 | - | - |
pawk | 13 | - | - |
pawl | 9 | a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | - |
nowl | 7 | - | - |
nown | 7 | - | - |
nows | 7 | - | - |
rawn | 7 | - | - |
raws | 7 | - | - |
plew | 9 | - | - |
pown | 9 | - | - |
pows | 9 | - | - |