Word.ws English Dictionary

3-Letter Words Starting with W

There are 45 three-letter words that start with W on Word.ws, from wad to wye. The most common are was, who, way, why and war.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 45 three-letter words that start with W

WA

  • wad7n. An amorphous, compact mass.
  • wag7v. To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to...
  • wah9interj. A cry of fright, distress, etc. (especially of an infant or young...
  • wai6n. A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the...
  • wan6adj. Pale, sickly-looking.
  • wap8n. A blow, hitbeating; a whap.
  • war6n. Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between...
  • was6v. Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is...
  • wat6n. A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand...
  • wau6n. Digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).
  • waw9n. A wall.
  • wax13n. Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally...
  • way9n. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to...

WE

  • web8n. The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the...
  • wed7v. To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
  • wee6adj. Small, little.
  • weh9n. A red panda.
  • wel6v. To transform or change in form, appearance, or state.
  • wem8n. A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
  • wen6n. A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.
  • wer6n. A man; a male; a husband.
  • wet6adj. Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
  • wew9interj. An expression of contemptuous astonishment in response to embarrassing...
  • wey9n. An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2...

WH

  • who9pron. What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of...
  • why12adv. Introducing a complete question.

WI

  • wig7n. A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness...
  • win6v. To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now...
  • wis6adv. Certainly, surely.
  • wit6n. Sanity.
  • wiz15n. A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular...

WO

  • woe6n. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
  • wog7n. Someone of Mediterranean descent, such as an Italian, Spanish...
  • wok10n. A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
  • won6n. The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in...
  • woo6v. To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.
  • wor6det. Our.
  • wos6v. Was.
  • wot6v. To know (a fact).
  • wow9interj. An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure.

WR

  • wry9adj. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).

WU

  • wub8n. Love.
  • wud7adj. Mad; crazy.
  • wug7n. An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to...

WY

  • wye9n. The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with W are there?
Word.ws lists 45 three-letter words that start with W.
What are common three-letter words that start with W?
was, who, way, why, war, win, won and wow.
Which of the three-letter words that start with W has the highest letter score?
wiz scores 15 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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