5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CANID

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪnəd//ˈkænəd/

Noun

Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).

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 CANID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CANID 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 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #354 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___D C in the 1st position and D in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL SLATE STILE TORSE DROLE SOGER
Words starting with C Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.92 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CANID 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#354 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CANID ranks #354 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
1,029
4 guesses
1,106
5 guesses
142
6 guesses
11
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:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

468
269
190
145
108
78
73
65
60
57
49
40
39
38
33
30
30
29
28
25
22
20
19
18
17
16
16
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CANID:

20% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8% →
SOREL 6.17 bits
11.4% →
SLATE 5.71 bits
8.1% →
STILE 5.43 bits
6.1% →
TORSE 4.79 bits
4.6% →
TORSE 5.29 bits
3.3% →
DROLE 5.00 bits
3.1% →
SOGER 4.52 bits
2.8% →
TORSE 4.81 bits
2.5% →
SOREL 4.96 bits
2.4% →
GLARE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1N1I1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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