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WELDS

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What WELDS Means

WELDS is a form of WELD, which means:

  1. noun: European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
  2. noun: a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together
  3. verb: join together by heating“weld metal”
  4. verb: unite closely or intimately“Her gratitude welded her to him”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WELDS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 E1 L1 D2 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In WELDS

27 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 (10)

3 letter words (12)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing WELDS

WELDS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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