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Only fifteen Spanish words on this page begin with W, and not one of them is native to the language.
Spanish has no native word starting with W. The letter entered the alphabet to carry names and loanwords, mostly from English and German, and it does almost no other work.
WHISKY, WATERPOLO, WATTS and WOLFRAMIO are the ones in ordinary use, alongside WIFIS, WINDSURF and the WAFLE pair. WEBER is the unit of magnetic flux and WAGNERIANO describes the composer's style, both built on surnames that entered the language as common nouns.
Where English uses W, Spanish generally writes GU or HU. Whisky also appears as GÜISQUI in older texts, which follows Spanish spelling rules far more closely.
Fifteen words is too few to be a study list. It is more useful as a reminder that a W in a Spanish crossword almost always signals a borrowed term or a name.
Yes, it is included, but only to write foreign words and names. No native Spanish root uses it.
Usually like the English W in borrowed words, or like a B or GU sound in older adaptations such as GÜISQUI.
Because the letter arrived through borrowing rather than descent from Latin, and Spanish already had ways to write those sounds.
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