What WHELMED Means
WHELMED is a form of WHELM, which means:
- verb: overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- verb: to neither fail to meet nor exceed expectation
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WHELMED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 H4 E1 L1 M3 E1 D2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In WHELMED
63 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 (2)
5 letter words (8)
4 letter words (21)
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.