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WHELMING

8 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WHELMING Means

WHELMING is a form of WHELM, which means:

  1. verb: overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
  2. verb: to neither fail to meet nor exceed expectation

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WHELMING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 H4 E1 L1 M3 I1 N1 G2.

Words Made From The Letters In WHELMING

108 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.

7 letter words (2)

6 letter words (6)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (33)

3 letter words (37)

2 letter words (14)

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