Whelk is valid Scrabble Word

Is whelk a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for WHELK in dictionary:

VERB:

gather whelk

NOUN:

a popular name for a number of marine gastropods
a predatory marine mollusc with a heavy pointed spiral shell, some kinds of which are edible.
a pimple.
edible snail-like shellfish
Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe.
A papule; a pustule; acne.
A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
large marine snail much used as food in Europe
large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a pustule

Words related to WHELK

whelkier18 whelkiest19 whelks16 whelky19

Words that contain WHELK

whelks16 whelky19 whelked18 whelkier18 whelkiest19

How to use WHELK in a sentence

As he grows he needs a larger house, and so leaves the tight shell and pops his tail into a bigger one, generally a whelk shell.
The crab lives in the whelk shell, and the Anemone lives on the roof, as it were.
Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed.
Now we will look at a shell-builder, the Whelk, who uses his flinty tongue in quite another fashion.
The Whelk and Periwinkle are gathered in immense numbers, and are used by us for food.
They swell in the water, until the yellowish bundle is three times as large as the Whelk that laid it.
The whelk and his cousins know how to bore a hole in the shell, and suck out the helpless Oyster.
Writhing to and fro, He wept profuse, while many a bloody whelk Protuberant beneath the sceptre sprang.

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