diff --git a/bin/verilator b/bin/verilator
index 7b15d01fc..5777d0690 100755
--- a/bin/verilator
+++ b/bin/verilator
@@ -1700,7 +1700,7 @@ languages.
 AMS parsing is enabled with "--language VAMS" or "--language 1800+VAMS".
 
 At present Verilator implements ceil, exp, floor, ln, log, pow, sqrt,
-and string.
+string, and wreal.
 
 =head2 Sugar/PSL Support
 
diff --git a/src/verilog.l b/src/verilog.l
index 1525459b0..abc1556c4 100644
--- a/src/verilog.l
+++ b/src/verilog.l
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ word	[a-zA-Z0-9_]+
    "transition"		{ yyerrorf("Unsupported: AMS reserved word not implemented: %s",yytext); }
    "units"		{ yyerrorf("Unsupported: AMS reserved word not implemented: %s",yytext); }
    "white_noise"	{ yyerrorf("Unsupported: AMS reserved word not implemented: %s",yytext); }
-   "wreal"		{ yyerrorf("Unsupported: AMS reserved word not implemented: %s",yytext); }
+   "wreal"		{ FL; return yWREAL; }
    "zi_nd"		{ yyerrorf("Unsupported: AMS reserved word not implemented: %s",yytext); }
    "zi_np"		{ yyerrorf("Unsupported: AMS reserved word not implemented: %s",yytext); }
    "zi_zd"		{ yyerrorf("Unsupported: AMS reserved word not implemented: %s",yytext); }
diff --git a/src/verilog.y b/src/verilog.y
index d11fbcd38..802f9a6fe 100644
--- a/src/verilog.y
+++ b/src/verilog.y
@@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ class AstSenTree;
 %token<fl>		yVOID		"void"
 %token<fl>		yWHILE		"while"
 %token<fl>		yWIRE		"wire"
+%token<fl>		yWREAL		"wreal"
 %token<fl>		yXNOR		"xnor"
 %token<fl>		yXOR		"xor"
 
@@ -1087,6 +1088,8 @@ non_integer_type<bdtypep>:	// ==IEEE: non_integer_type
 		yREAL					{ $$ = new AstBasicDType($1,AstBasicDTypeKwd::DOUBLE); }
 	|	yREALTIME				{ $$ = new AstBasicDType($1,AstBasicDTypeKwd::DOUBLE); }
 	//UNSUP	ySHORTREAL				{ $$ = new AstBasicDType($1,AstBasicDTypeKwd::FLOAT); }
+	//			// VAMS - somewhat hackish
+	|	yWREAL 					{ $$ = new AstBasicDType($1,AstBasicDTypeKwd::DOUBLE); VARDECL(WIRE); }
 	;
 
 signingE<signstate>:		// IEEE: signing - plus empty
diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_vams_basic.v b/test_regress/t/t_vams_basic.v
index 9e86b1102..e7caa969d 100644
--- a/test_regress/t/t_vams_basic.v
+++ b/test_regress/t/t_vams_basic.v
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ module t (/*AUTOARG*/
       end
    endtask
 
+   wreal wr;
+   assign wr = 1.1;
+
+   sub sub (.*);
+
    initial begin
       check(`__LINE__, sqrt(2.0)	, 1.414);
       check(`__LINE__, pow(2.0,2.0)	, 4.0);
@@ -32,3 +37,11 @@ module t (/*AUTOARG*/
       $finish;
    end
 endmodule
+
+module sub (
+	    input wreal wr
+	    );
+   initial begin
+      if (wr != 1.1) $stop;
+   end
+endmodule