What SWELL Means
- verb: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity“The music swelled to a crescendo”
- verb: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger“The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son”
- noun: the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- noun: a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SWELL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 W4 E1 L1 L1.
Anagrams of SWELL (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SWELL
14 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (5)
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (3)
Longer Words Containing SWELL
SWELL appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.