4-letter words starting with W
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter W. This section showcases how W at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with W, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| what | 10 | Something; thing; stuff. | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| went | 7 | - | - |
| wife | 10 | a married woman; a man's partner in marriage | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| wall | 7 | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
| wine | 7 | a red as dark as red wine | - |
| 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) | - |
| weak | 11 | deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | weak colors |
| 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) | - |
| 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 |
| wing | 8 | travel through the air; be airborne | - |
| wipe | 9 | rub with a circular motion | wipe the blackboard |
| wire | 7 | a message transmitted by telegraph | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| worm | 9 | to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | - |
| whip | 12 | beat severely with a whip or rod | - |
| wont | 7 | an established custom | - |
| womb | 11 | a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | - |
| 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) | - |
| wage | 8 | carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe |
| whew | 13 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| woof | 10 | the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | - |
| wits | 7 | the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | he used his wits to get ahead |
| whim | 12 | a sudden desire | - |
| wink | 11 | a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| weir | 7 | a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish | - |
| whiz | 19 | make a soft swishing sound | - |
| wank | 11 | slang for masturbation | - |
| wack | 13 | - | - |
| whee | 10 | - | - |
| wail | 7 | emit long loud cries | wail in self-pity |
| wilt | 7 | become limp | The flowers wilted |
| 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 | - |
| wisp | 9 | a flock of snipe | - |
| wart | 7 | (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus | - |
| weld | 8 | European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | - |
| ware | 7 | spend extravagantly | - |
| wavy | 13 | uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | - |
| wast | 7 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| wove | 10 | - | - |
| wile | 7 | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | - |
| wads | 8 | a large number or amount | - |
| welt | 7 | beat severely with a whip or rod | - |
| wald | 8 | - | - |
| wold | 8 | a tract of open rolling country (especially upland) | - |
| weta | 7 | - | - |
| wadi | 8 | gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season | - |
| whap | 12 | hit hard | - |
| wert | 7 | - | - |
| whop | 12 | hit hard | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| weal | 7 | a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| wonk | 11 | an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | - |
| 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 |
| waah | 10 | - | - |
| wazz | 25 | - | - |
| woah | 10 | - | - |
| wiki | 11 | - | - |
| wels | 7 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| wabs | 9 | - | - |
| wadd | 9 | - | - |
| wadt | 8 | - | - |
| wady | 11 | - | - |
| waac | 9 | - | - |
| waes | 7 | - | - |
