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4 Letter Words Starting With W

There are 211 4 letter words starting with W. The highest scoring in Scrabble is WAQF at 19 points, ahead of WHIZ at 19. 5 of them contain no vowel at all.

Common 4 Letter Words Starting With W And What They Mean

The most familiar words on this page and what they mean. Tap any word for its full entry, score and anagrams.

  • WILL noun the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
  • WORK verb exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
  • WELL adverb (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’)
  • WANT verb feel or have a desire for
  • WEST noun the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees
  • WEEK noun any period of seven consecutive days
  • WORD noun a unit of language that native speakers can identify
  • WIDE adjective having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
  • WISH verb to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
  • WALL noun an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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