5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

CANON

Yes, CANON was the Wordle answer on July 7, 2024 (Wordle #1114).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.ən/

Noun

A generally accepted principle; a rule.

“The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.”

Noun

A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

Adjective

Clipping of canonical.

“The franchise's book spinoff is usually not considered canon.”

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: July 7, 2024 (#1114).

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

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How CANON performs as a guess

CANON 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,961 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___N C in the 1st position and N in the 5th position C__O_ C in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER SLATE TORSE STILE STIRE TUILE
Words starting with C Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.37 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CANON 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,961 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CANON ranks #8,961 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
812
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
250
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
32%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CANON in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

539
317
264
168
115
79
59
58
56
53
50
49
37
36
35
34
26
26
22
21
21
19
19
16
14
13
13
11
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CANON:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
SLIER 6.11 bits
13.4% →
SLATE 5.68 bits
11.2% →
TORSE 5.32 bits
7.1% →
STILE 4.84 bits
4.9% →
STIRE 4.99 bits
3.4% →
TUILE 4.95 bits
2.5% →
DROLE 4.36 bits
2.5% →
SLIER 4.73 bits
2.4% →
TRIPE 4.10 bits
2.2% →
DRONE 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1N1O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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