Swelter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 141 anagrams from letters in swelter (eelrstw).
1375-1425; late Middle English swelt(e)ren (v.), equivalent to swelt(en) to be overcome with heat (Old English sweltan to die; cognate with Old Norse svelta, Gothic swiltan) + -eren Examples for swelter
"But in hot weather like this it must make you swelter," continued Elmer. Then there is hot weather, perhaps up in the eighties, and Californians grumble, swelter and rustle for summer clothes. There no longer is anywhere to hide from the swelter and welter of the American id. The city, hot as an oven, seemed to swelter in the stifling night. How far away now seems the welter and swelter of the city, the hectic sophistication of the streets. The beat of the sun from above and the swelter of dust from below were overpowering. How the crowded chickadee babies must swelter in their bed of fur and feathers tucked inside a close, stuffy hole! She knew as a child what it was to live amidst storms of babies, in the heat and swelter of fecundity. He hadn't much missed her in the swelter of the new passion, but after ten days passed he began to worry. The poor children have to swelter in knitted socks, knitted hoods, and knitted sweaters, just because they come from America.
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