5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CANDO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A small city, the county seat of Towner County, North Dakota, United States.

Proper noun

A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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 CANDO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CANDO 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,372 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

C___O C in the 1st position and O in the 5th position C__D_ C in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER SLATE STORE STILE SEITY URITE
Words starting with C Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CANDO 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,372 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CANDO ranks #2,372 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

429
259
241
144
118
89
74
70
65
55
51
45
45
40
39
34
34
30
29
21
21
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18
18
18
14
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CANDO:

18% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
STORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
SLIER 6.15 bits
11.0% →
SLATE 5.76 bits
10.2% →
STORE 5.33 bits
6.1% →
STILE 4.82 bits
5.0% →
SEITY 5.09 bits
3.8% →
URITE 4.96 bits
3.1% →
SIREN 4.53 bits
3.0% →
TUILE 4.89 bits
2.8% →
SLANE 4.64 bits
2.3% →
FLORA 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1N1D2O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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