CANOE
Yes, CANOE was the Wordle answer on May 15, 2023 (Wordle #695).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kəˈnuː/
- Noun
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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
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An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
- Verb
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To ride or paddle a canoe.
- Verb
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To split someone's head with a round.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Lokono kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it KUHNOO.
Rhymes with DEBUT THREW SCREW QUEUE RENEW
In a sentence
I don't have a canoe.
We used to have a canoe.
Use CANOE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: May 15, 2023 (#695).
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CANOE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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 90 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,048 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe CANOE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.
As an opening guess: previous 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CANOE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CANOE can come back 124 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CANOE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CANOE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CANOE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CANOE:
Research on CANOE
Game-tree analysis and word research for CANOE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CANOE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #439 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CANOE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CANOE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 96 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).