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CANOE

Yes, CANOE was the Wordle answer on May 15, 2023 (Wordle #695).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kəˈnuː/

Noun

A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.

Noun

An oversize, usually older, luxury car.

Verb

To ride or paddle a canoe.

Verb

To split someone's head with a round.

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: May 15, 2023 (#695).

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

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How CANOE performs as a guess

CANOE 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 90.6% of games, misses completely in 9.4%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,048 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__O_ C in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SPILT SETER STORY SLART SLIER TARDY
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.51 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CANOE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,048 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CANOE ranks #1,048 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
977
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
163
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
3 vowels
Common:
AENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
43%
All gray
9%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CANOE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

123 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

221
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145
141
104
95
92
81
65
62
60
54
51
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49
41
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CANOE:

9% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
9% chance
Suggested:
SETER
6% chance
Suggested:
STORY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.4% →
SPILT 5.73 bits
9.1% →
SETER 5.52 bits
6.1% →
STORY 4.86 bits
6.0% →
SLART 5.50 bits
4.4% →
SLIER 4.40 bits
4.0% →
SLART 4.83 bits
3.9% →
TARDY 3.97 bits
3.4% →
SLART 4.42 bits
2.8% →
STORE 3.86 bits
2.6% →
STING 4.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1N1O1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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