- Types Of Speech
- You can use dwell as a verb in a sentence.
- About Dwell
- A 1 syllables verb and 5 letters with the letters d, e, l, and w, 4 consonants, 1 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letter e. Dwell starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, dw, dwe, dwel, and the ending characters are l, ll, ell, well, . Dwell is also a double consonant (ll) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- Think moodily or anxiously about something
- Origin/Roots
- Old English
- School Grade
- Dwell is set as a grade six word that starts with d, ends with l, 1 syllables, 1 vowels and 5 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is dwell a scrabble word? A 9 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Dwell in Pig Latin is said as "elldway or elldwway".
- Unigram
- d | w | e | l | l
- Bigram
- dw | we | el | ll
- Trigram
- dwe | wel | ell
- Quadrigram
- dwel | well
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- come back to;
"Don't dwell on the past";
"She is always harping on the same old things" - make one's home or live in;
"She resides officially in Iceland";
"I live in a 200-year old house";
"These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted";
"The plains are sparsely populated" - originate (in);
"The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abide | put up with something or somebody unpleasant "I cannot bear his constant criticism" "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" "he learned to tolerate the heat" "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" |
| Abode | housing that someone is living in "he built a modest dwelling near the pond" "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" |
| Absorb | cause to become one with "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax" |
| Accent | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
| Accentuate | put stress on utter with an accent "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" |
| Be | a light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element |
| Bear | massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws |
| Berth | a job in an organization "he occupied a post in the treasury" |
| Bide | dwell "You can stay with me while you are in town" "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" |
| Billet | a job in an organization "he occupied a post in the treasury" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Dwell
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dwell | think moodily or anxiously about something |
View English words with the unique letters used in dwell. Words With The Letters Delw
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Care | activity involved in maintaining something in good working order "he wrote the manual on car care" |
| Worry | something or someone that causes anxiety a source of unhappiness "New York traffic is a constant concern" "it''s a major worry" |
| Name | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Caldwell | Yes | No |
| Ludwell | No | No |
| Edwell | No | No |
| Bidwell | No | No |
| Chadwell | Yes | No |
View All Names For Dwell
| See Also | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dwell On | n/a |
| Linger Over | n/a |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waddle (6 letters) | 11 +2 | 12 +1 | dawdle | ||
| Weld (4 letters) | 8 | 9 | lewd | ||
| Weald (5 letters) | 9 | 10 | dewal | ||
| Declaw (6 letters) | 12 +3 | 14 +3 | declaw | ||
| Dwell (5 letters) | 9 | 11 | dellw | ||
| Dawdle (6 letters) | 11 +2 | 12 +1 | dawdle | ||
| Clawed (6 letters) | 12 +3 | 14 +3 | declaw | ||
| Lewd (4 letters) | 8 | 9 | lewd | ||
| Walled (6 letters) | 10 +1 | 12 +1 | walled | ||
| Lewdly (6 letters) | 13 +4 | 14 +3 | dellwy | ||
| Dewal (5 letters) | 9 | 10 | dewal |
Dwell Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With L
- Spelled With / Contains Letters

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