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WELLING

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WELLING Means

WELLING is a form of WELL, which means:

  1. adverb: (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’)“the children behaved well”
  2. adverb: thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form“The problem is well understood”
  3. noun: a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
  4. noun: a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WELLING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 E1 L1 L1 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In WELLING

52 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.

6 letter words (3)

5 letter words (4)

4 letter words (17)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (7)

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