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4-letter words starting with WA
There are 51 4-letter words starting with WA in the standard word-game list. The most common are want, wait, walk, wake, wall, ways.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| want | a state of extreme poverty | 7 |
| wait | time during which some action is awaited | 7 |
| walk | the act of traveling by foot | 11 |
| wake | the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | 11 |
| wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an… | 7 |
| ways | structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | 10 |
| warm | having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat | 9 |
| wash | a thin coat of water-base paint | 10 |
| warn | notify of danger, potential harm, or risk | 7 |
| wave | a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now… | 10 |
| ward | a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another | 8 |
| wade | walk (through relatively shallow water) | 8 |
| warp | a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting | 9 |
| wage | something that remunerates | 8 |
| wand | a rod used by a magician or water diviner | 8 |
| wasp | a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination | 9 |
| wary | marked by keen caution and watchful prudence | 10 |
| wail | a cry of sorrow and grief | 7 |
| watt | a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a… | 7 |
| wart | any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) | 7 |
| ware | articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: ‘silverware’, ‘software’ | 7 |
| wack | Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, cringy, uncool, messed up. | 13 |
| wavy | (of hair) having waves | 13 |
| wast | Second-person singular simple past form of be; wert. | 7 |
| wadi | gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season | 8 |
| wane | a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | 7 |
| waxy | made of or covered with wax | 17 |
| wads | a large number or amount | 8 |
| wabs | Breasts. | 9 |
| waff | To bark; to woof. | 13 |
| waft | a long flag; often tapering | 10 |
| waif | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned | 10 |
| wain | large open farm wagon | 7 |
| wair | A plank six feet long and one foot across. | 7 |
| wale | a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | 7 |
| waly | An exclamation of grief. | 10 |
| wame | The belly. | 9 |
| wany | Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; said especially of sawed boards or… | 10 |
| wark | Pain; ache. | 11 |
| wats | a telephone line; long distance service at fixed rates for fixed zones; an acronym for wide area telephone… | 7 |
| waul | make high-pitched, whiney noises | 7 |
| wawl | make high-pitched, whiney noises | 10 |