English Irregular Verbs

There are many Irregular Verbs in English which do not conform to the pattern. The principal parts of the English verb are the base form, the simple past, and the past participle. For regular verbs, the simple past and the past participle are spelled the same and are created by adding ed to the base form. However, there are many irregular verbs in English which do not conform to this pattern.

The additional forms of the verb in English are the s form (3rd person singular present), and the present participle, which is created by adding ing to the base form. There are no irregular forms of the present participle, so the spelling of any verb will adhere to the rules of spelling for regular inflection.

A comprehensive list of 619 English irregular verbs, including their base form, past simple, past participle and definitions is here below.

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle	Definition
Wake	Woke	Woken	To stop sleeping and become conscious To make somebody stop sleeping
Waylay	Waylaid	Waylaid	To wait for or to stop somebody to rob them
Wear	Wore	Worn	To have clothes on your body
Weave	Wove	Woven	To make material
Wed	Wed/Wedded	Wed/Wedded	To marry
Weep	Wept	Wept	To cry heavily
Wend	Wended/Went	Wended/Went	To go, make your way
Wet	Wet/Wetted	Wet/Wetted	To make something wet by applying a liquid to it
Whipsaw	Whipsawed	Whipsawn/Whipsawed	To cut with whipsaw (a saw for two people) To victimise
Win	Won	Won	To be the best in a competition, game, election, etc.
Wind	Wound	Wound	To turn something round to make a mechanical process operate
Winterfeed	Winterfed	Winterfed	To feed cattle in the winter when they can't graze
Wiredraw	Wiredrew	Wiredrawn	To make wire To make something last a long time, especially speech
Wit	Wist	Wist	To know
Withdraw	Withdrew	Withdrawn	To remove money from a bank To remove something from a place
Withhold	Withheld	Withheld	Not to let somebody have something
Withstand	Withstood	Withstood	To resist successfully
Wont	Wont	Wont/Wonted	To be accustomed
Work	Worked/Wrought	Worked/Wrought	To make physical or mental effort to produce or achieve something
Wrap	Wrapped/Wrapt	Wrapped/Wrapt	To cover To transport emotionally
Wreak	Wreaked	Wreaked/Wroken	To cause or make something happen
Wring	Wrung	Wrung	To put a lot of pressure on something to remove liquids
Write	Wrote	Written	To put words onto paper using a pen or pencil

English Irregular Verbs

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