  We analyze the efficacy of multiqubit W-type states as resources for quantum
information. For this, we identify and generalize four-qubit W-type states. Our
results show that the states can be used as resources for deterministic quantum
information processing. The utility of results, however, is limited by the
availability of experimental setups to perform and distinguish multiqubit
measurements. We, therefore, emphasize on another protocol where two users want
to establish an optimal bipartite entanglement using the partially entangled
W-type states. We found that for such practical purposes, four-qubit W states
can be a better resource in comparison to three-qubit W-type states. For dense
coding protocol, our states can be used deterministically to send two bits of
classical message by locally manipulating a single qubit.
