Canuckle Answers Archive — Every Word Since February 2022

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1,626 answers

Showing every published daily answer, newest first. The data was last refreshed on 2026-10-21.

Every Canuckle answer, newest first

This is the whole list. It is not a sample and it is not rounded: 1,626 published daily puzzles are here, plus 83 weekly bonus rounds further down the page. The third column is the puzzle number, which is how Canuckle itself numbers its games. The number climbs by one per day from 143 on 4 October 2022, the day the puzzle resumed after its summer break, and it is the same number that appears in the game's own share text.

Reading down the list is a surprisingly good way to understand how the puzzle's vocabulary has changed. The early run of answers is unmistakably themed: canoe, maple, inuit, plaid, igloo, hoser, syrup, bacon, sorry, whale, north, aboot, banff, falls. Later stretches drift towards a broader everyday pool, and by the most recent stretch the words read like a general five-letter word list with the occasional distinctly Canadian one slipped in. The table below counts that shift directly, by counting how many words in each year come from a set of Canadian place names, animals, foods and nicknames.

What 1,626 answers reveal

Large samples of a curated word list are useful in ways that feel obvious afterwards and are not obvious in advance. Here is what this one shows, all of it counted directly from the table above rather than estimated.

Letter frequency across the whole archive

The single most useful fact for a solver is that letters are not equally common. Across all 1,626 answers, the most frequent first letters are s (240), c (163), b (136), p (133), t (113), f (97), g (79), m (77), r (75), l (62). The most frequent final letters are s (300), e (252), y (159), t (141), r (132), l (99), n (87), h (79), d (67), k (59). A word that starts with s is roughly two and a half times as likely as a word that starts with g, and that difference is large enough to change which guess you open with.

These counts include every letter position, not just the first one, so a letter that is common in the middle of a word will also look common here. That is the right measure for a game where the second guess usually starts with a letter you have already ruled out: what you want to know is which letters are worth having in the grid at all.

Year by year

Two things stand out. First, no answer has ever been reused: the archive holds 1,626 answers and 1,626 distinct words, so every word in the table is unique. Second, the share of distinctly Canadian vocabulary falls over time, which tells you the editors widened the pool after the first couple of years. For a solver that means the early streak was easier to crack on vocabulary and the recent streak is easier to crack on letter frequency, because the pool is now closer to general English.

Vowel starts and doubled letters

155 of the 1,626 answers begin with a vowel, which is just under a tenth of the list and much lower than the general English rate, because a daily word game tends to avoid opening on a vowel that gives too little away. 540 of the answers contain a repeated letter somewhere in the word. That figure is higher than most people expect, and it is a useful corrective: a Canuckle answer is not always five different letters, and guessing only five-letter words with no repeats will quietly cost you options.

The Canuckle+ weekly bonus round

Canuckle+ is the harder weekly round. Where the daily puzzle gives you five letters and six guesses, the bonus round uses longer words, and it opens once a week rather than once a day. Across the 83 rounds published so far the average answer is 6.5 letters, and 39 of the rounds use a seven-letter word.

The bonus rounds are worth knowing about for a practical reason. Because they change only once a week, the set of Canuckle+ answers is small enough to memorise, and if you play the daily puzzle every day you will build up an intuition for the editors' taste that transfers straight over to the weekly round. The full list is below.

How this archive was built, and how it was checked

Nobody publishes a machine-readable list of Canuckle answers, so the list had to be assembled from what the game itself makes public and then verified hard enough that no wrong word can slip through.

The first source is the answer store that the game's own web app reads. Each published puzzle lives there as a single record holding the answer word and the running tally of how many people have finished it. The second source is the game's own recap page, which lists every past word against the date it was played. The words are read from the first, the dates are confirmed against the second, and nothing is published unless both agree.

On top of that, the archive's daily job is small enough to check by hand. The puzzle's own client computes which puzzle number a given date refers to, and that rule is simple: the number is the number of days since 4 October 2022, plus 143. The number of people who have finished each puzzle is also visible in the same record, and it moves in exactly the way you would expect it to: yesterday's puzzle sits at roughly forty thousand finishes, today's sits lower because it is still in progress, and tomorrow's sits at almost none. That single check, comparing the recorded finish count against the date the rule predicts, is what confirms any given day is being served by the puzzle it claims to be.

Every word in the table below was checked against the answer store one more time after the list was assembled, and none of the 1,626 words failed that check. The list is regenerated every night from the same source, so it does not go stale, and if a fetch ever fails the previous file is kept rather than being overwritten with a guess. A page that publishes a wrong word is worse than a page that publishes nothing, so the refresh job is built to fail closed.

Canadian spelling inside the archive

Canadians and Americans spell a handful of common words differently, and the differences are exactly the kind of thing a word game punishes: the letter is right, the position is right, and the guess is still wrong. Colour, centre, cheque, defence, favourite, honour, labour, neighbour, favour and harbour are the ones that matter most in Canadian English.

The archive is a good place to see how little the difference actually comes up in a Canadian-themed word list. Only 1 of the 1,626 distinct answers ends in our, and it is flour. Only 13 answers end in or at all, and they are actor, donor, floor, juror, major, manor, motor, prior, razor, spoor, tenor, tutor, visor — none of which is a Canadian spelling variant. Colour, favourite and honour simply do not appear in four years of daily puzzles, and the words that do end in those patterns are the ones where Canadian and American English agree anyway.

The practical lesson for a player is that the danger zone is narrower than it looks. You are not going to lose a Canuckle streak to centre or centre's American spelling, because those words are not in the pool. You are far more likely to lose to a word like syrup, bacon, hoser, aboot or banff, which are perfectly ordinary in Canada and unfamiliar outside it. If you want to read more about the Canadian side of the game, the Canuckle strategy page covers the spelling rules that actually apply to five-letter Canadian words and how to climb a hint ladder without wasting guesses.

How to use the archive to get better at Canuckle

An archive is only worth having if it changes how you play. Here are four ways it does that.

• Learn the editor's taste. Read a hundred answers in date order and the pattern becomes obvious. The editor likes concrete nouns, place names, animals, tools and food. They avoid abstract nouns, they avoid words with a doubled letter at the front, and they lean heavily on words that can be illustrated.
• Pre-load your first guesses. The letter frequency table above tells you which openers are worth having. A word that starts with s, c, b, p or t is far more likely than one starting with g, m, v or z, and that is a real edge on your first guess.
• Build your own candidate list before you need it. If you are stuck on a puzzle, take the letters you have ruled out, note the letters you still have, and search the archive for words that fit. A word that has already been played is not a candidate, but the shape of the words around it tells you what the editor was reaching for that week.
• Check a hunch. If you are convinced you remember the answer to last Tuesday, search for it here and see whether it was right. This is the single most common use of the page, and it is why the search box is the first control on the page rather than the year filter.

For the same reason, this site keeps a separate daily Canuckle page with a four-level hint ladder and a strategy write-up, and it keeps the Wordle answer archive in the same format, because a lot of the thinking transfers. If you play both games, the way you set up a first guess is a single decision you get to make twice a day.

What Canuckle is, for anyone arriving here cold

Canuckle launched in February 2022 and was made in Canada, with a Canadian point of view built into the word list. It is played exactly like a five-letter daily word game: type a word, press enter, and the board tells you what it knows. A tile goes red if the letter is right and in the right place, amber if the letter is in the word but in the wrong place, and grey if the letter is not in the word at all. You get six guesses, the puzzle resets once a day, and the game keeps your streak and your guess distribution. It also gives you a short hint at the top of the page and a fun fact once you solve it.

The daily reset happens at midnight in Toronto, which is the detail that catches people out. If you are playing in Vancouver you get it six hours before your own midnight; if you are in Halifax you get it an hour later. And if you are anywhere east of Toronto, the puzzle can appear to roll over before your own clock has turned midnight, which is why two people comparing notes can sometimes be looking at different days.

The answer pool is the interesting part. The early puzzles leaned hard on Canadian vocabulary, and later ones widened out, but the through-line is that the editor picks words with a story attached, which is why the fun fact exists at all. If you enjoy this kind of game, the word games hub collects the other daily puzzles on this site, and the full five-letter word list is the raw material the puzzle is drawn from.

Frequently asked questions

What is Canuckle?

Canuckle is a free daily word game made in Canada. You get six tries to guess a five-letter word with a Canadian connection, and after each guess the tiles tell you whether a letter is right, wrong, or right but in the wrong place. It resets once a day at midnight Toronto time, it tracks your streak and your guess distribution, and it has nothing to do with The New York Times.

How many Canuckle answers does this archive hold?

This archive holds 1,626 dated daily answers, running from 2022-02-10 to 2026-10-27, plus 83 weekly Canuckle+ bonus rounds. Every one of those words was read from Canuckle's own published answer store and then cross-checked against the game's own recap page, so the list is complete rather than sampled. Only 1,626 distinct words appear, which means no answer has ever been repeated.

Where does the answer data come from?

Canuckle's web app stores each puzzle in a public answer database, and the game also publishes a recap page listing every past word with its date. This archive reads the word and the date from those two places and publishes only the word and the date. The game's hint text and its fun-fact blurbs stay where they belong, on Canuckle's own site, and this page links to that recap page as the original source.

Is this page affiliated with Canuckle?

No. AnyWordSolver is an independent, free site. We link to Canuckle's own pages so you can check anything we publish, but we do not control, work for, or speak for the people who made the game, and we do not ask you for an account to use anything on this site.

Why does the answer change at midnight Toronto time?

Because that is when the puzzle rolls over. Canuckle resets at midnight in the America/Toronto timezone, so a Canadian player at 11pm sees one word and the same player at 1am sees the next one. If you are in a timezone that runs ahead of Toronto you may find the game has already moved on to tomorrow's word before your own clock has turned midnight, which is a common source of confusion when people compare notes.

What is Canuckle+?

Canuckle+ is the harder weekly round. It runs once a week rather than once a day, it uses longer words, and it is the same basic idea with more pressure on you. This archive lists all 83 of the Canuckle+ rounds that have been published, with the week each one opened. The average length of a Canuckle+ word is 6.5 letters, against exactly five for the daily puzzle, and 39 of the rounds use seven letters.

Can I use this archive to learn Canadian spelling?

You can, though the archive teaches it by example rather than by rule. The answer list is a large random sample of the words Canuckle's editor has chosen to feature, and it is worth noticing that only 1 of the 1,626 distinct words end in our, and not one of the 13 words ending in or is a Canadian-spelling variant. The archive is full of place names, animals, tools and weather words rather than the vocabulary of a government form.

Does the archive include every single day?

Almost. Canuckle paused for a stretch in the summer of 2022 and again for a couple of days in September 2023, and no puzzle was published on those dates, so there is nothing to list for them. Every other published puzzle is here, back to the very first one on 10 February 2022.

How do I find one specific answer?

Three ways. Use the date box at the top of this page and it jumps straight to that day's row. Use the year filter and the first-letter filter to narrow the table down, then type into the search box to match part of a word. Or use the year links under the table, which move the table to a single year so you do not have to scroll through everything.

Why does this page publish answers when the official game does not?

Because the official game only reveals a word once you have already solved it, which is the whole point of the game. A list like this is for a different job: checking an answer you are fairly sure of, looking up a word you half remember from a streak, studying the word pool, or settling a friendly argument about what Canuckle played last Tuesday. If you want to solve the day's puzzle, close this page and play it.

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