SCENT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SCENT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCENT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCENT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCENT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCENT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCENT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does SCENT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A distinctive smell, especially a pleasant one, or the trail of odour left by an animal or person that can be followed.
A scent is usually pleasant by implication, which is why perfume itself is often simply called a scent, distinct from the more neutral word smell or the clearly unpleasant word stench. Hunting dogs and trackers rely on a completely different sense of the word, the faint trail of odour a person or animal leaves behind, which a good dog can follow for miles even after the trail has gone cold. To scent something, as a verb, can mean either to give it a pleasant fragrance or to detect something through smell, and by extension to sense trouble or opportunity before any clear evidence appears, as in to scent danger. Flowers, food and perfume all compete for the same word, so a garden, a kitchen and a dressing table can each be described as filled with scent for quite different reasons.
How SCENT is used
Common in everyday speech for pleasant smells and perfume, and equally standard in hunting, tracking and figurative talk of sensing danger or opportunity.
- The garden was heavy with the scent of roses after the rain.
- The hounds picked up the fox's scent near the old stone wall.
- She dabbed a light scent on her wrist before leaving the house.
- He seemed to scent trouble the moment he walked into the room.
- Rain had washed away most of the scent, and the dogs struggled to track it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCENT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCENT
The 5 tiles of SCENT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SCENT
8 longer words begin with SCENT.
Words ending in SCENT
Showing 24 of 113 words that end in SCENT. Useful as a back hook: play SCENT onto a word already on the board.
Words with SCENT inside
Showing 24 of 46 words that contain SCENT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SCENT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SCENT
Common questions about SCENT
- Is SCENT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCENT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCENT worth?
- SCENT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCENT mean?
- A distinctive smell, especially a pleasant one, or the trail of odour left by an animal or person that can be followed.
- What letters can be added to SCENT?
- SCENT takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCENT:
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