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SCENT

Yes, SCENT was the Wordle answer on June 20, 2024 (Wordle #1097).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sɛnt/

Noun

A distinctive smell.

“the scent of flowers / of a skunk”

Noun

A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

“The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.”

Verb

To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.

“The hounds scented the fox in the woods.”

Verb

To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).

Alternative forms: sent

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 20, 2024 (#1097).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SCENT performs as a guess

SCENT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.3% of games, misses completely in 13.7%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,098 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _C__T C in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

MOLAR RAILE CORAL TOTAL TARTE ARIEL
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.15 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCENT performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,098 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCENT ranks #1,098 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
1,001
4 guesses
1,109
5 guesses
154
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
34%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
S C E N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCENT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

324
322
123
102
100
96
87
80
70
68
62
58
52
47
39
35
34
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25
24
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCENT:

14% chance
Suggested:
MOLAR
14% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
5% chance
Suggested:
CORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

13.7% →
MOLAR 5.75 bits
13.6% →
RAILE 5.40 bits
5.2% →
CORAL 5.33 bits
4.3% →
TOTAL 4.97 bits
4.2% →
TARTE 4.85 bits
4.1% →
ARIEL 4.53 bits
3.7% →
LOGIN 4.85 bits
3.4% →
LAIRY 4.75 bits
3.0% →
CARLE 4.87 bits
2.9% →
BRASS 4.73 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for SCENT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

S1C3E1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.