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WELLS

5 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

WELLS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

WELLS root WELL-s

Word family

WELL 1 BETTER 3 BEST 1 WALL 1 WEEL 1 WEIL 1 VELL 1 WELLING-ing 5 WELLED-ed 3

Might be on the same board

Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

WELLINGS 11 WELLNESS 11 WELLNESSES 11
adverb
  1. Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
    • He does his job well.
    • My RV runs well on diesel.
    • The jacket looks good and fits you well.
  2. Completely, fully.
    • I prefer a well done steak.
    • Cook the potatoes well to ensure they aren't tough.
    • We’re well beat now.
    • I was well looked after by close relations.
  3. To a significant degree.
    • That author is well known.
    • A monument well worth seeing
  4. CommonwealthIrelandUKslangVery (as a general-purpose intensifier).
  5. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
    • I'm glad Joe got fired last week. I think we're well rid of him.
adjective
  1. In good health.
    • I've been sick, but now I'm well.
    • I've always been a healthy, fit woman, but right now I really don't feel very well.
  2. Highly satisfactory
    • Everything well with you?
  3. Good, content.
    • “How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”
  4. uncommonPrudent; good; well-advised.
  5. archaicGood to eat; tasty, delicious.
interjection
  1. Used as a discourse marker.
    • “So, what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic; and then it started raining, so we came home early.”
  2. Used as a hedge.
    • “The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.”
    • “I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.”
    • I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we’re sleeping under the stars tonight.
  3. Expressing reluctance to say something.
    • It was a bit... well, too loud.
  4. An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
    • Well, well, well, what do we have here?
  5. An exclamation of indignance.
    • Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
  6. IrelandUsed as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
    • Well, lads? How's things?
  7. Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.
    • And what do you think you're doing? ... Well?
noun
  1. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
  2. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
  3. A small depression, e.g. suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
    • Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.
  4. figurativelyA source of supply.
  5. A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
  6. The cockpit of a sailboat.
  7. A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
  8. A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
  9. A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
  10. An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
  11. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
  12. The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
  13. A well drink.
    • They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.
  14. The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
  15. In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
  16. The region of an interface that contains tabs.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
  2. intransitiveTo have something seep out of the surface.
    • Her eyes welled with tears.