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Wii

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /wiː/
  • homophone: oui
  • homophone: we
  • homophone: wee
  • homophone: whee (wine–whine merger)
  • rhymes with -iː
  • CMU ARPABET: W IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: video-games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Marketing coinage: homophone for we, with the two i characters supposed to represent two people, suggesting players gathering together.

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: وي (wy) — video game console
  • French: Wii — video game console
  • German: Wii — video game console
  • Japanese: Wii (Wii) — video game console
  • Japanese: ウィー (Wī) — video game console
  • Persian: وی (vii) — video game console
  • Polish: Wii — video game console
  • Spanish: Wii — video game console