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

STENT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stɛnt//stɪnt/

Noun

A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

Verb

To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

Noun

An allotted portion; a stint.

Verb

To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

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 STENT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STENT 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 193 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,197 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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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 _T__T T in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe STENT 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.

4.62 Entropy (bits)
193 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STENT 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,197 Rank among openers
Opening with STENT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,197 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
215
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
34%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

STENT can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

451 answers
395 answers
123 answers
115 answers
113 answers
107 answers
97 answers
86 answers
76 answers
62 answers
59 answers
58 answers
57 answers
35 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1E1N1T1
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 CABIN AINEE LOATH CLARY

Strategy after playing STENT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STENT:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
17% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
5% chance
Suggested:
CABIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0% →
CAROL 6.02 bits
16.6% →
RAILE 5.40 bits
5.2% →
CABIN 5.01 bits
4.8% →
AINEE 4.54 bits
4.8% →
LOATH 4.81 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 4.90 bits
4.1% →
TIARE 4.73 bits
3.6% →
CRASS 4.71 bits
3.2% →
COALY 4.39 bits
2.6% →
ARIEL 4.27 bits

Research on STENT

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

Optimal play

Opening with STENT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,330 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,448 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 STEHNT.

Rhymes with EVENT SPENT MEANT SCENT BRENT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, STENT is a kind of tube.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STENT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).