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wanta

wanta is the eye dialect spelling of want to.

Meaning of want to

Phrase

want to

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see want, to.

See all 2 meanings of want to

Proper noun capitalized: Wanta

Wanta (plural Wantas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of wanta

Contraction
alternative formwanna
Proper noun
pluralWantas

Origin of wanta

Written form of a reduction of want to, used informally in most English dialects.

Questions about wanta

What does wanta mean?
Wanta means a surname.
What is wanta the eye dialect spelling of?
Wanta is the eye dialect spelling of want to.
What part of speech is wanta?
Wanta is a proper noun.

Words near wanta in the dictionary

  1. want-away
  2. want-aways
  3. want-to
  4. want-to-be
  5. want-to-bes
  6. wanta
  7. Wantabadgery
  8. wantable
  9. wantableness
  10. wantage
  11. Wantagh

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wanta (page history and authors); Wanta (page history and authors); want to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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