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Definition: Wheal |
WhealNoun1. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wheal" was first used: 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Wheal or Huel means a tin-mine. (Cornwall.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | Corn. A mine. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: WhealSynonyms: wale (n), weal (n), welt (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Wheal |
| English words defined with "wheal": Francolite. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | With a positive reaction, a small, raised, reddened area (called a wheal) with a surrounding flush (called a flare) will appear at the test site. The size of the wheal can give the physician an important diagnostic clue, but a positive reaction does not prove that a particular pollen is the cause of a patient's symptoms. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wheal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wheal" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wheal | 6 |
cullen wheal | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wheal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vrajë (pit, welt), e djegur (burn, scald), blanë (bruise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dollbord (gunnel, gunwale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ράβδωση (flute, fluting, groove, streak, stria, striation, stripe), βουρδουλιά (weal, welt), ξυλιά, ευημερία (prosperity, prosperousness, weal, welfare, well being, wenfare), ευτυχία (fortune, happiness, weal), ίχνοσ μαστιγώσεωσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ealwhay волдырь (bleb, blister, draught, weal). (various references) pervaz (cincture, cornice, cyma, dressing, fringe, jamb, molding, moulding, reveal, rib, ribbon, shelf, sill, Wale), kenar (border, brim, brink, brow, edge, flange, hem, lip, Marge, margin, rim, side, skirt, skirting, verge, Wale), kırbaç izi, iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, hint, ichno-, impress, impression, inkling, odor, odour, print, scar, shades, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taint, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, trail, vestige, weal), çizgi (bar, drawing, furrow, grain, groove, line, ruling, score, scratch, stria, stripe). (various references) пухир (bleb, blister). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hwelian. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wheal": wheals. (additional references) | |
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"Wheal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mheall, theal, whail, whea, whead, wheay, wheil, whele, whelg, whell, whoal, whoall, woeal, Xhemal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: whale. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-w" | |
-1 letter: hale, heal, wale, weal. | |
-2 letters: ale, awe, awl, hae, haw, hew, law, lea, wae, wha. | |
-3 letters: ae, ah, al, aw, eh, el, ha, he, la, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-w" | |
+1 letter: awhile, wealth, whaled, whaler, whales, wheals. | |
+2 letters: hewable, shawled, wealths, wealthy, whalers. | |
+3 letters: chewable, eschewal, hallowed, hallower, hawklike, narwhale, plowhead, showable, thawless, washable, wellhead, whaleman, whalemen, wheelman. | |
+4 letters: cartwheel, deathblow, eschewals, gearwheel, hallowers, handwheel, hawsehole, holloware, lowlihead, meanwhile, narwhales, plowheads, plowshare, shallowed, shallower, showplace, swellhead, washables, watchable, wealthier, wealthily, weatherly, weighable, wellheads, whaleback, whaleboat, whalebone, whalelike, wheelbase, wheelsman, whitetail, whitewall, wholesale. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 68 65 61 6C |
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