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Is whelp a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word whelp is a Scrabble US word. The word whelp is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is whelp a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word whelp is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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Yes. The word whelp is a Words With Friends word. The word whelp is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

WHELP,

4-letter words (3 found)

HELP,PHEW,PLEW,

3-letter words (7 found)

HEP,HEW,LEP,LEW,PEH,PEL,PEW,

2-letter words (6 found)

EH,EL,EW,HE,PE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from whelp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of whelp

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Definitions and meaning of whelp

whelp

Etymology 1

From Middle English whelp, from Old English hwelp, from Proto-West Germanic *hwelp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz (compare Dutch welp, German Welpe, Welfe, Old Norse hvelpr, Norwegian Nynorsk kvelp, Danish hvalp), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɛlp/
  • (without the wine–whine merger) IPA(key): /ʍɛlp/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlp
  • Homophone: welp (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whelp (plural whelps)

  1. A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
  2. (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
    • July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian
      That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
    • October 22, 2011, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Luna Eclipsed"
      Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!
  3. (obsolete) A kind of ship.
  4. One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
  5. A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
Derived terms
  • bear-whelp
  • fox whelp, fox-whelp, fox's whelp (foxling)
  • (Newfoundland) whelping ice
  • whelpie
  • whelpling
  • whelpy
  • wolf whelp, wolf-whelp, wolf's whelp
Translations
See also
  • Guelf, Guelph
  • Welf
  • Welfe
  • Welpe

Etymology 2

From Middle English whelpen, from Old English hwelpian, derived from hwelp.

Verb

whelp (third-person singular simple present whelps, present participle whelping, simple past and past participle whelped)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.
Translations

Etymology 3

Variant of welp.

Interjection

whelp

  1. Alternative form of welp (“well”)

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • quelp, quelpe, qwelp, qwelpe, welp, welpe, whelpe
  • ȝwelp, hwelp, hweolp, whellp (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English hwelp, from Proto-West Germanic *hwelp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hwɛlp/
  • (dialectal) IPA(key): /wɛlp/, /xwɛlp/

Noun

whelp (plural whelpes)

  1. A whelp (a puppy or a baby dog)
  2. A whelp (the young of other animals, especially canids and felids)
  3. A whelp (as an insulting term)
  4. (rare) An unknown kind of mechanical machine or system.

Related terms

  • whelpen
  • whelpynge

Descendants

  • English: whelp
  • Scots: whalp, whaulp

References

  • “whelp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-09.

Source: wiktionary.org