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w¹

  • /ˈdʌbəl.juː/ letter, name
  • /ˈdʌbə.juː/ letter, name
  • /ˈdʌbiː.(j)uː/ letter, name
  • /ˈdʌb.juː/ letter, name
  • /ˈdʌb.jə/ letter, name
  • /ˈdʌb/ letter, name
  • /ˈdʌbz/ letter, name
  • /ˈdʊbəl.juː/ letter, name
  • /w/ phoneme

letter W · ws · w's

  1. letter, lowercase The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double-u and written in the Latin script.

w²

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

noun

  1. watt
  2. west
  3. witness
  4. work
  5. abbreviation Abbreviation of win

adjective

  1. wide
  2. white
  3. from noun sense 5 successful, admirable, good W rizz.

preposition

  1. Internet, abbreviation Abbreviation of with This was supposed 2 be a SURPRISE, but the girls got it out of me. ☺ I wanted all of us 2 spend Xmas 2gether. By all, I mean r horses 2. Sooo . . . B, C, G, Z, & D, you have guests waiting @ BC. Zane, Valentino, Scout, Nero, & Polo r there! Now we can ride r horses when we r not volunteering & spend
  2. with a wing (on the Enneagram) When Sharon took the Enneagram test, she came out as a 3w2.

W³

  • /ˈdʌb(əl)juː/ UK
  • /ˈdʌbə(l)ju/ US
  • /ˈdʌbəlju/ China

Rhymes with -ʌbəlju, -ʌbjə, -ʌb

letter w · Ws · W's

  1. letter, uppercase The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double U and written in the Latin script.

W⁴

  • /ˈdʌb(əl)juː/ UK
  • /ˈdʌbə(l)ju/ US
  • /ˈdʌbəlju/ China

Rhymes with -ʌbəlju, -ʌbjə, -ʌb

Where it comes from

Abbreviations of various words beginning with W.

noun Ws

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of women (sign on toilet door). From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.
  2. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of west
  3. abbreviation Abbreviation of Wednesday

    Similar: Wed, Wed.

  4. abbreviation Abbreviation of wins (statistic).
  5. Internet, abbreviation, countable Abbreviation of win You say that like it's not an absolute W.
  6. abbreviation Abbreviation of wicket
  7. abbreviation Abbreviation of warrant

adjective more W · most W

  1. slang Excellent, top-notch (abbreviation of winner). (Compare noun etymology 2, noun sense 4 and etymology 2, noun sense 5.) You, sir, are a W man.

    Opposite: L

proper noun

  1. US, informal George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

    Similar: Dubya, GWB

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noun west

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@misc{w_2026,
  title = {w},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/w},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}