5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SHENT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of shend

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 SHENT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHENT 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,292 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

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 _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE LAIRY AINEE TIARE TAPIR
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.14 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHENT 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,292 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHENT ranks #1,292 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
988
4 guesses
1,097
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
36%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

121 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

375
356
103
103
88
84
80
67
61
59
51
50
48
44
41
34
33
26
25
24
23
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21
21
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19
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHENT:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
15% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
4% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
CAROL 5.92 bits
15.1% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
4.4% →
LAIRY 4.89 bits
4.4% →
AINEE 4.53 bits
3.7% →
TIARE 4.69 bits
3.6% →
TAPIR 5.06 bits
3.4% →
COALY 4.89 bits
2.8% →
COALY 4.30 bits
2.6% →
CRASS 4.69 bits
2.5% →
ARIEL 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4E1N1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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