What is the answer to the crossword clue "wheal"?

There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares covers all three answers, so this clue is decided entirely by crossings. WELT is the most common in ordinary English and therefore the safest first guess.

How many letters is the answer to "wheal"?

Anything from 4 to 4. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.

How reliable are these answers?

3 of the 3 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.

Crossword clue

Wheal crossword clue

3 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "wheal", from as short as 4 letters up to 4, grouped below by the length of your slot.

Written by Blake Boege

Answers by length

1 different lengths answer this one. Yours is whichever row matches the squares in the grid.

Letters	Answers
4	waleconfirmed by two sources wealconfirmed by two sources weltconfirmed by two sources

What this list looks like

The 4-letter row is the crowded one, holding 3 of the 3.

The short ones are worth learning: WALE, WEAL, WELT at 4 letters, which is where a setter goes when the grid is tight.

Which one does the setter mean?

Four squares covers all three answers, so this clue is decided entirely by crossings. WELT is the most common in ordinary English and therefore the safest first guess.

How these differ

All three are a raised mark on the skin, and the differences are small and mostly historical. WHEAL and WEAL are variants of the same word and describe the raised ridge left by a blow or an allergic reaction, the kind a doctor calls urticaria. WELT is the general word and also the one used outside medicine, and it has a second life in shoemaking as the strip joining upper to sole. WALE is the same family again and survives mainly in fabric, where corduroy is described by its wale.

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Where these answers come from

No puzzle was consulted to build this page. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “wheal” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 3 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.

Common questions

What is the answer to the crossword clue "wheal"?: There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares covers all three answers, so this clue is decided entirely by crossings. WELT is the most common in ordinary English and therefore the safest first guess.
How many letters is the answer to "wheal"?: Anything from 4 to 4. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
How reliable are these answers?: 3 of the 3 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.