well
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When well helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
E L W
Two-Letter Start
WE
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
LL
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- WE start
- LL ending
- repeated letters
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- well is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include e, l, w plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The LL ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the WE start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
adjective
In good health.
"I had been sick, but now I'm well."
adjective
Good, content.
"“How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”"
adjective
Prudent; good; well-advised.
adverb
(manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
"He does his job well."
adverb
(manner) Completely, fully.
"We’re well beat now."
adverb
(degree) To a significant degree.
"That author is well known."
adverb
(degree) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
adverb
In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
interjection
Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
"“I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.”"
interjection
An exclamation of surprise (often doubled or tripled).
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
interjection
An exclamation of indignance.
"Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!"
interjection
Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
"It was a bit... well... too loud."
interjection
Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
"“So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.”"
interjection
(Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
"Well lads. How's things?"
noun
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
noun
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
noun
A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
"Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk."
noun
A source of supply.
noun
A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
noun
The cockpit of a sailboat.
noun
A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
noun
A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
noun
A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
noun
An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
noun
The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
noun
The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
noun
A well drink.
"They're having a special tonight: $1 wells."
noun
The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
noun
In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
verb
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
verb
To have something seep out of the surface.
"Her eyes welled with tears."