# W (disambiguation)

W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet.
W may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Books and magazines

* W (magazine), an American fashion magazine
* W, or the Memory of Childhood, a 1975 novel by Georges Perec
* W Publishing, formerly Word Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
* "W" Is for Wasted, the twenty-third novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 2013

### Film and television

* W (1974 film), a suspense American film
* W (2014 film), a thriller Hindi language film
* W (2022 film), a Finnish dystopian experimental film
* W. (film), a 2008 film about United States President George W. Bush by Oliver Stone
* W (TV series), a 2016 South Korean television series
* Kamen Rider W, a 2009–10 Japanese tokusatsu drama
* W, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

### Music

* Wumpscut, an electro-industrial music project sometimes referred to as :w:
* W (group), a Japanese pop music duo
* The W, a studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan
* W (Wanessa Camargo album), 2005
* W (Planningtorock album), 2011
* W (Whigfield album), 2012
* "W", a song by Koffee
* W (Boris album), 2022

### Broadcasting

* Channel W, a defunct Malaysian television channel
* W Network, a Canadian cable television specialty channel
* W Channel (Australia), an Australian pay television channel
* U&W, formerly W, a UK and Ireland general entertainment channel
* W, the initial call sign letter for most U.S. radio and television stations east of the Mississippi River

## Organizations and businesses

* Der Wienerschnitzel restaurants large brand logo
* Mississippi University for Women, US, nickname "The W"
* W Hotels, a brand of hotels of Marriott International
* W Motors, an UAE based sports car company
* Wayfair (NYSE stock symbol: W)
* Women's National Basketball Association, also nicknamed "The W"
* World Balance, a shoe company
* Big W, an Australian discount department store, and subsidiary of Woolworths Group

## Science and technology

* Watt (W), the SI derived unit for power
* Tungsten, symbol W, a chemical element
* W band, a radio band ranging from 75 to 111 GHz
* Work (physics) (symbol: W), in physics
* Tryptophan (single-letter abbreviation: W), an amino acid
* Haplogroup W (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
* Lambert W function, a set of functions where w is any complex number
* Weierstrass function, a real function continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere
* W and Z bosons, subatomic particles
* Wurtzite crystal structure (prefix w-)
* Weight (W)
* W state a type of quantum entanglement

### Computing

* w (Unix), a command to list logged in users on Unix-like systems
* W Window System, a graphical windowing system for Unix platforms
* Algorithm W, or the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm

## Transportation

* W (Los Angeles Railway), a line operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1920 to 1956
* W (New York City Subway service), a New York City Subway service
* W (tram), a class of electric trams built by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board.
* The official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for:
** Kisei Main Line.
** San'yō Main Line.

## Other uses

* W postcode area, of London
* W National Park, a major national park in West Africa
* Five Ws, of journalism: who, what, when, where, and why
* West, one of the four cardinal directions
* Voiced labial-velar approximant [w], in the International Phonetic Alphabet
* George W. Bush (born 1946), 43rd President of the United States, nickname "W"
* Whiskey, the military time zone code for UTC−10:00
* The W emblem on Wario's hat and gloves
* Internet slang for winning