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WHELM

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

WHELM 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.

Word family

WHELMS-s 3 WHELMING-ing 11 WHELMED-ed 5
verb
  1. archaictransitiveTo bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
  3. obsoletetransitiveTo ruin or destroy.
  4. archaicintransitiveTo overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
  5. colloquialtransitiveTo emotionally affect at an intensity in between underwhelm and overwhelm.
noun
  1. alsofigurativelypoeticA surge of water.
    • the whelm of the tide
  2. A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.