Scrabble & Words with friends points
- swells is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
- swells is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
- swells is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11
Definition of swells
- expand abnormally (verb)
Examples
- The bellies of the starving children are swelling
Synonyms
- intumesce
- swell up
- tumefy
- tumesce
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) (verb)
Examples
- Smoke swelled from it
Synonyms
- well up
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger (verb)
Examples
- The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
Synonyms
- puff up
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance (noun)
Synonyms
- beau
- clotheshorse
- dandy
- dude
- fashion plate
- fop
- gallant
- sheik
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea (noun)
Synonyms
- crestless wave
- come up, as of a liquid (verb)
Synonyms
- well
- very good (adjective)
Synonyms
- bang-up
- bully
- corking
- cracking
- dandy
- great
- groovy
- keen
- neat
- nifty
- not bad
- old
- peachy
- slap-up
- smashing
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo (noun)
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) (noun)
- cause to become swollen (verb)
Examples
- The water swells the wood
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity (verb)
Examples
- The music swelled to a crescendo
See definition of swells in Merriam Webster