Wordle #1072
Wordle Answer — Thursday, March 12, 2026
The answer was a 5-letter noun/verb
S
M
E
L
L
Definition
SMELLnoun/verb
The faculty or act of perceiving odors through the nose, or to perceive a scent using the olfactory senses.
She could smell the fresh bread baking from the end of the street.
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SMELL contains a double L, which often trips up Wordle players who don't consider repeated letters early enough. The common SM- opening is not immediately intuitive, and players may waste guesses cycling through more frequently used starting consonant pairs.
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