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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SENTS

SENTS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of 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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How SENTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SENTS as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,520 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

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

S___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position SE_TS S in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SENTS.

First-turn measures

All four describe SENTS 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.

4.57 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SENTS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#8,520 Rank among openers
Opening with SENTS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,520 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
819
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
36%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

SENTS can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

451 answers
339 answers
154 answers
134 answers
114 answers
102 answers
95 answers
89 answers
71 answers
65 answers
53 answers
52 answers
50 answers
50 answers
49 answers
37 answers
37 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1N1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

CAROL RAILE TAROT GROAN LEARE TALER

Strategy after playing SENTS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SENTS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SENTS:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
6% chance
Suggested:
TAROT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0% →
CAROL 6.02 bits
14.3% →
RAILE 5.27 bits
6.5% →
TAROT 5.13 bits
5.6% →
GROAN 5.16 bits
4.8% →
LEARE 4.72 bits
4.3% →
TALER 4.80 bits
4.0% →
CLARY 4.92 bits
3.7% →
ARIEL 4.62 bits
3.0% →
PARLE 4.65 bits
2.7% →
COALY 4.27 bits

Research on SENTS

Game-tree analysis and word research for SENTS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SENTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,404 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,667 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SEHNTS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SENTS is a kind of unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SENTS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.4 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).