5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CANES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /keɪnz/

Noun

plural of cane

Noun

Bamboo plants of genus Arundinaria, the sole temperate genus of bamboo native to the New World.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of cane

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 CANES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CANES 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 88.8% of games, misses completely in 11.2%, and leaves about 97 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,752 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position CA_ES C in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

MOULT TOILE SHIRT TRAIL OLDER DEALT
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.37 Entropy (bits)
97 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CANES 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,752 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CANES ranks #1,752 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
19
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:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
36%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

110 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

265
187
138
137
129
126
88
83
82
60
55
49
49
47
45
38
35
34
33
31
28
27
26
24
22
21
20
20
19
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CANES:

11% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHIRT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.2% →
MOULT 5.53 bits
7.9% →
TOILE 5.22 bits
5.9% →
SHIRT 5.22 bits
5.8% →
TRAIL 5.24 bits
5.5% →
OLDER 4.12 bits
5.3% →
DEALT 4.93 bits
3.7% →
IRONY 4.73 bits
3.5% →
STORE 4.58 bits
3.5% →
TARDY 4.21 bits
2.5% →
SHART 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1N1E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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