underwhelm
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 10
Definition of underwhelm
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.
“The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm first recorded in the 1950s.
Words you can make from underwhelm
200+ playable · top: WHELMED (16 pts)
Best play whelmed 16 points8-letter words
1 word7-letter words
3 words6-letter words
26 words- HELMED 12 pts
- MEWLED 12 pts
- MUDHEN 12 pts
- MEWLER 11 pts
- UNHELM 11 pts
- HURDLE 10 pts
- HURLED 10 pts
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- REWELD 10 pts
- UNDREW 10 pts
- WEDELN 10 pts
- WELDER 10 pts
- DEMURE 9 pts
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- MENDER 9 pts
- REMEND 9 pts
- RELUME 8 pts
- DUELER 7 pts
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- ENDURE 7 pts
- ENURED 7 pts
- LENDER 7 pts
- NURLED 7 pts
- RELEND 7 pts
- RUNDLE 7 pts
- UNREEL 6 pts
5-letter words
39 words- WHELM 13 pts
- HEWED 12 pts
- HEWER 11 pts
- MEWED 11 pts
- WHEEL 11 pts
- WHEEN 11 pts
- WHERE 11 pts
- REHEM 10 pts
- RHEME 10 pts
- RHEUM 10 pts
- UNMEW 10 pts
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- LURED 6 pts
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- RULED 6 pts
- UNDEE 6 pts
- UNDER 6 pts
- UNLED 6 pts
- ENURE 5 pts
4-letter words
74 words- HEWN 10 pts
- WHEE 10 pts
- WHEN 10 pts
- HELM 9 pts
- HEME 9 pts
- HERM 9 pts
- MEWL 9 pts
- DREW 8 pts
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- LURE 4 pts
- NURL 4 pts
- REEL 4 pts
- RULE 4 pts
- RUNE 4 pts
3-letter words
53 words- HEW 9 pts
- HEM 8 pts
- HUM 8 pts
- MEH 8 pts
- MEW 8 pts
- DEW 7 pts
- DUH 7 pts
- EDH 7 pts
- WED 7 pts
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- DUM 6 pts
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- EWE 6 pts
- HEN 6 pts
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- HUN 6 pts
- MED 6 pts
- MUD 6 pts
- NEW 6 pts
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- WEN 6 pts
- ELM 5 pts
- EME 5 pts
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- MEL 5 pts
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- REM 5 pts
- RUM 5 pts
- DEE 4 pts
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- DUE 4 pts
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- LED 4 pts
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- RED 4 pts
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- REE 3 pts
- RUE 3 pts
- RUN 3 pts
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2-letter words
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