welter

welter is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
2. intransitive verb. To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
3. intransitive verb. To wither; to wilt.
4. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
5. noun. That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
6. noun. A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
7. noun. a confused multitude of things

   Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, muddle, smother

8. verb. be immersed in

   "welter in work"

9. verb. roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"

   Synonyms: wallow

10. verb. toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way

    "The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours"

Synonyms

clutter, fuddle, jumble, muddle, smother, wallow

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in welter:

trewel

Common word forms

welters, weltered, weltering

Words from these letters

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