SCENT
Yes, SCENT was the Wordle answer on June 20, 2024 (Wordle #1097).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /sɛnt/
- Noun
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A distinctive smell.
“the scent of flowers / of a skunk”
- Noun
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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
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To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
“The hounds scented the fox in the woods.”
- Verb
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To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
Alternative forms: sent
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell, sense”), from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel, sense”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”), Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), German Sinn (“sense”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SEHNT.
Rhymes with EVENT SPENT MEANT BRENT STENT
Related meanings
Synonyms wind nose SMELL perfume fragrance odor
In a sentence
There's a scent of danger.
The dog picked up the scent.
Use SCENT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 20, 2024 (#1097).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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SCENT appeared in PLEASANT SMELLS (yellow group).
How SCENT performs as a guess
SCENT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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 130 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,098 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SCENT used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.
As an opening guess: previous 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SCENT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SCENT can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SCENT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing SCENT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SCENT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SCENT:
Research on SCENT
Game-tree analysis and word research for SCENT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SCENT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,224 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SCENT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SCENT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 46 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with smell (4.6 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).