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SCRUM

Yes, SCRUM was the Wordle answer on March 5, 2025 (Wordle #1355).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɹʌm/

Noun

A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.

“A scrum developed around the bar when free beer was announced.”

Noun

A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.

“A scrum formed around Scott Brison in the House of Commons lobby shortly after he announced his candidacy for the federal Liberal leadership.”

Verb

To form a scrum.

Proper noun

Alternative letter-case form of Scrum.

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: March 5, 2025 (#1355).

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

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How SCRUM performs as a guess

SCRUM 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 216 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,797 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

S___M S in the 1st position and M in the 5th position S__U_ S in the 1st position and U in the 4th position

Try next

ALONE DAINE PLATE LANCE GUILT LEAST
Words starting with S Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
216 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCRUM 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,797 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCRUM ranks #2,797 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
16
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
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
26%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S C R U B
S C R U M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SCRUM in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

520
350
174
162
122
105
94
75
69
50
48
40
38
33
33
32
26
22
22
20
16
16
16
14
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11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCRUM:

22% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
15% chance
Suggested:
DAINE
7% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
ALONE 6.15 bits
14.8% →
DAINE 5.54 bits
7.4% →
PLATE 5.47 bits
6.9% →
LANCE 5.40 bits
5.2% →
GUILT 5.09 bits
4.5% →
LEAST 5.19 bits
4.0% →
LIANE 5.32 bits
3.2% →
CRATE 4.88 bits
2.9% →
POTAE 4.61 bits
2.1% →
THANE 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3R1U1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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