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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

CANAL

Yes, CANAL was the Wordle answer on July 10, 2026 (Wordle #1847).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kəˈnæl//kəˈnal//kəˈnɛl/

Noun

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

Noun

A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.

Verb

To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage

Verb

To travel along a canal by boat

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 10, 2026 (#1847).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How CANAL performs as a guess

CANAL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 222 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,277 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___L C in the 1st position and L in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE BIOSE GOIER STARE STIRE SLATE
Words starting with C Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
222 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CANAL 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,277 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CANAL ranks #5,277 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
16
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
34%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
B A N A L
C A N A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CANAL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

599
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CANAL:

25% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
8% chance
Suggested:
BIOSE
8% chance
Suggested:
GOIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
TORSE 6.31 bits
8.5% →
BIOSE 5.15 bits
8.4% →
GOIER 5.39 bits
7.3% →
STARE 5.51 bits
5.0% →
TORSE 4.84 bits
4.0% →
STIRE 5.14 bits
3.2% →
SLATE 4.56 bits
2.9% →
TROPE 4.93 bits
2.5% →
SOWER 4.28 bits
2.5% →
SIDEY 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1N1A1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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