Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wels

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables: wels
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city in Wels-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria, south-west of Linz.

noun

wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

name

Initialism of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

Etymology

From German Wels, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Wels, *(s)kʷálos

Rhymes With

else bells els chels quells

Questions

What does wels mean?: A city in Wels-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria, south-west of Linz.
Where does wels come from?: It is traced to German.

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