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Is swelt a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word swelt is a Scrabble US word. The word swelt is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

S1W4E1L1T1

Is swelt a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word swelt is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

S1W4E1L1T1

Is swelt a Words With Friends word?

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5-letter words (2 found)

SWELT,WELTS,

4-letter words (12 found)

ELTS,EWTS,LEST,LETS,SLEW,STEW,TELS,TEWS,WELS,WELT,WEST,WETS,

3-letter words (14 found)

ELS,ELT,EST,EWT,LES,LET,LEW,SEL,SET,SEW,TEL,TES,TEW,WET,

2-letter words (7 found)

EL,ES,ET,EW,ST,TE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 36 words from swelt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of swelt

swelt

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /swɛlt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).

Verb

swelt (third-person singular simple present swelts, present participle swelting, simple past and past participle swelted or swelt) (obsolete outside dialects)

  1. To die.
  2. To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
    • 1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses Book. 1; line 571:
      Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,

Etymology 2

Verb

swelt

  1. (obsolete) simple past of swell

Anagrams

  • Welts, welts

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