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Are there any words in the English dictionary ending in the letters "wa?"
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Off the top of my head, I can think of "schwa", which is not commonly used in conversation; it is used in phonetic transcription.

There is also the Native American tribe called the Objibwa, and the capital city of Canada, Ottawa.
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This is the list from Onelook.com, most are foreign words used in English:
http://www.onelook.com/?w=*wa&scwo=1&sswo=1
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