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Is welk a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word welk is a Scrabble US word. The word welk is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is welk a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word welk is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

W4E1L1K5

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4-letter words (2 found)

KEWL,WELK,

3-letter words (4 found)

ELK,EWK,LEK,LEW,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,EW,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from welk according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of welk

welk ewlk wlek lwek elwk lewk wekl ewkl wkel kwel ekwl kewl wlke lwke wkle kwle lkwe klwe elkw lekw eklw kelw lkew klew

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word welk. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in welk.

Definitions and meaning of welk

welk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɛlk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlk

Etymology 1

From Middle English welken, probably from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch welken (Dutch welken) and Middle Low German welken. Cognate with German welken. Ultimately, from Proto-West Germanic *wilkijan (“to become soft”), from Proto-Germanic *welkaz (“soft, withered”), according to Kluge, related to *wulkną (“cloud”).

Compare also Old English wealwian (“to fade, wither”), Old English wlacu (“tepid, lukewarm”).

Verb

welk (third-person singular simple present welks, present participle welking, simple past and past participle welked)

  1. (obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
  2. (obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
  3. (dialectal) to soak, steep.
  4. (dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.
  5. To contract; to shorten.
  6. (transitive) To form into wrinkles or ridges.

Etymology 2

Noun

welk (plural welks)

  1. Alternative form of whelk

Anagrams

  • kewl, lewk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch welc, from Old Dutch *wilik, *welik, from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋɛlk/
  • Hyphenation: welk
  • Rhymes: -ɛlk

Determiner

welk

  1. which (what, of those mentioned or implied)

Inflection

Pronoun

welk

  1. (relative) which

Declension

Descendants

  • Berbice Creole Dutch: weleke
  • Negerhollands: welk, welleke, welli
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: welk

Anagrams

  • kwel

German

Etymology

From Middle High German welc, from Old High German welk; see the verb welken. Cognate with Hunsrik wellich.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛlk/

Adjective

welk (strong nominative masculine singular welker, comparative welker, superlative am welksten or am welkesten)

  1. wilted, faded

Declension

Related terms

  • welken
  • verwelken

Further reading

  • “welk” in Duden online
  • “welk” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk.

Alternative forms

  • welke, whelke, wilke, woelk, wylk, wylke

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɛlk/, /wilk/

Noun

welk (plural welkes)

  1. whelk (sea snail)
  2. (rare) whelk shell
Descendants
  • English: whelk, welk, whilk, wilk
  • Scots: wulk, wilk, welk
  • → Old French: welke
References
  • “welk(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

welk

  1. Alternative form of welken (“to dry out”)

Source: wiktionary.org