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SCRUM

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

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.

Etymology

Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

In a sentence

Tom faced the media scrum.
© tatoeba.org contributor Spamster (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use SCRUM in a puzzle

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

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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).

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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 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.8% of games, misses completely in 22.2%, and leaves about 220 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,797 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 _C__M C in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SCRUM.

First-turn measures

All four describe SCRUM 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
220 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,797 Rank among openers
Opening with SCRUM left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It 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

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

SCRUM can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

530 answers
352 answers
175 answers
163 answers
122 answers
105 answers
94 answers
75 answers
69 answers
50 answers
49 answers
42 answers
39 answers
34 answers
34 answers
32 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
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14 answers
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11 answers
10 answers

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.

Try next

ALONE DAINE PLATE LANCE GUILT LEAST

Strategy after playing SCRUM

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SCRUM.

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.

22.2% →
ALONE 6.15 bits
14.8% →
DAINE 5.54 bits
7.3% →
PLATE 5.46 bits
6.8% →
LANCE 5.40 bits
5.1% →
GUILT 5.09 bits
4.4% →
LEAST 5.19 bits
3.9% →
LIANE 5.32 bits
3.1% →
CRATE 4.87 bits
2.9% →
POTAE 4.61 bits
2.1% →
THANE 4.67 bits

Research on SCRUM

Game-tree analysis and word research for SCRUM, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SCRUM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,629 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,528 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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
SCRUM sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 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 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 79 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).