What WELLS Means
WELLS is a form of WELL, which means:
- 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”
- adverb: thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form“The problem is well understood”
- noun: a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- noun: a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WELLS 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 W4 E1 L1 L1 S1.
Anagrams of WELLS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In WELLS
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 WELLS
WELLS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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