sweet
Sweet can refer to a dish served as the last course of a meal, the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth, or the property of tasting as if it contains sugar. Sweet is also used as adjective or adverb, with meanings including having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar or in an affectionate or loving manner (‘sweet’ is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of ‘sweetly’).
Length
5
Scrabble
8
WWF
8
Starts
SW
Ends
EET
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “SWEET” Mean?
/swiːt/
sweet has 15 documented senses across adjective, noun, adverb.
Adjective
10 senseshaving or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
pleasing to the senses
“the sweet song of the lark”
“the sweet face of a child”
having a natural fragrance
“odoriferous spices”
“the odorous air of the orchard”
“the perfumed air of June”
“scented flowers”
Show 4 more adjective definitions
(used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
“sweet dessert wines”
Noun
4 sensesa food rich in sugar
Synonyms
the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
Synonyms
the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
Synonyms
Adverb
1 sensein an affectionate or loving manner (‘sweet’ is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of ‘sweetly’)
“Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly”
“{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': 'how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank'}”
“talking sweet to each other”
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
5
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
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Definition
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
Length
5 letters
Starts With
S
Ends With
T
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Letters
S, W, E, E, T
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆SWEET has a Scrabble score of 8. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★★★☆SWEET is a five-letter word, so it can be considered in Wordle-style solving. It includes common vowel information that can help narrow guesses.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆SWEET can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 5-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆SWEET contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
4
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
W
Letter Pattern
ABCCD
CV Pattern
CCVVC
Vowel Share
40%
Consonant Share
60%
Bigrams
SW, WE, EE, ET
Trigrams
SWE, WEE, EET
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