We are going to see this list with Spanish words that begin with the letter ‘w’, most of these words come from the English language.
In Spanish we have many words, but coincidentally there are not many words that begin with that letter. Approximately only words beginning with w occupy 0.02% of our entire vocabulary. In fact, they are words that are not widely used.
How to pronounce W in Spanish
In Spanish in some places it is called “uve doble” or, in other places, “doble u,” and in my country, Venezuela, we call it “doble v”.

Spanish words that start with W
You should keep in mind that in Spanish we use more words than the ones you will see in the list, but most of them are anglicisms not accepted by the Real Academia de la Lengua Española.
N | Spanish Word | English Word | Audio |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Wagneriano | Wagnerian | |
2 | Walkie-talkie | Walkie-talkie | |
3 | Washingtoniano | Washingtonian | |
4 | Waterpolista | Water polo player | |
4 | Waterpolo | Water polo | |
6 | Watt | Watt | |
7 | Wau: In diachronic descriptions, variant of the phoneme /u/ when it is part of a diphthong, either as a semiconsonant, as in agua, or as a semivowel, as in fauna. | ||
8 | Web | Web | |
9 | Weber: Unit of magnetic flux in the international system, equivalent to the magnetic flux which, passing through a circuit of a single loop, would produce in it an electromotive force of one volt if that flux were cancelled in one second by uniform decrease (Symbol Wb). | ||
10 | Weimarés: Belonging to or relating to Saxony-Weimar, to Weimar or to the Weimareses. | ||
11 | Wellingtonia | Wellingtonia | Requested file could not be found (error code 404). Verify the file URL specified in the shortcode. |
12 | Wélter | Welterweight | |
13 | Wéstern | Western | |
14 | Westfaliano | Westphalian | |
15 | Whiskería | Whiskery | |
16 | Whisky | Whisky | |
17 | Wincha: thick elastic band used to hold the hair over the forehead. | ||
18 | Windsurf | Windsurfing | |
19 | Windsurfing | Windsurfing | |
20 | Windsurfista | Windsurfer | |
21 | Wólfram(tungsten) | Tungsten | |
22 | Wolframio: metallic chemical element, atomic no. 74, steel-gray color, very hard. 74, steely gray, very hard and dense, scarce in the earth’s crust, with the highest melting point of all the elements and used in the filaments of incandescent lamps, in electrical resistors and, alloyed with steel, in the manufacture of tools. (Symbol W) | ||
23 | Wok | Wok |