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wels

wels noun: wels catfish (Silurus glanis).

Noun

wels (plural wels)

  1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

Proper noun (1) capitalized: WELS

WELS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Wels

Wels

  1. A city in Wels-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria, south-west of Linz.

Forms of wels

pluralwels

Plural of wels: wels

Origin of wels

From German Wels, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

Phrases with wels

Words that rhyme with wels

Questions about wels

What does wels mean?
Wels means wels catfish (Silurus glanis).
What part of speech is wels?
Wels can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of wels?
The plural of wels is wels.

Words near wels in the dictionary

  1. welp
  2. welpenela
  3. Welps
  4. Welrod
  5. Welrods
  6. wels
  7. wels catfish
  8. Welsbach
  9. Welsbach burner
  10. Welsbach burners
  11. Welsbach mantle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wels (page history and authors); WELS (page history and authors); Wels (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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