Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

welling

/ˈwɛlɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English

Syllables: welling
IPA: /ˈwɛlɪŋ/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of well

noun

The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.

name

Countable; Uncountable

name

Countable; Uncountable

name

Countable; Uncountable

name

Countable; Uncountable

name

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space."
"Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈwɛlɪŋ/
British English: /ˈwɛlɪŋ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

wellings (plural)

Derived Forms

downwelling upwelling

Rhymes With

telling selling yelling spelling compelling dwelling swelling smelling bestselling shelling retelling propelling

Questions

How do you pronounce welling?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈwɛlɪŋ/.
What does welling mean?: present participle and gerund of well

How to pronounce welling

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