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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for March 5, #1355

My fellow Americans, the answer for Wordle No. 1,355 for March 5 is a British stumper.

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Read on for help with Wordle.

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Today's Wordle puzzle might be tricky. It's not a term everyone uses, though if you enjoy a specific, mostly British sport, or are very informed on business terminology, it might be a word you know well. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Today's Wordle hints

Before we show you today's Wordle answer, we'll give you some hints. If you don't want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today's Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

There is one vowel in today's Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No. 3: Start letter

Today's Wordle answer begins with the letter S.

Wordle hint No. 4: Location

Today's Wordle answer has its lone vowel in the fourth position.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today's Wordle answer can refer to a rugby formation, and it can also refer to a business term.

TODAY'S WORDLE ANSWER

Today's Wordle answer is SCRUM.

Yesterday's Wordle answer

Yesterday's Wordle answer, March 4,  No. 1354, was CHECK.

Recent Wordle answers

Feb. 28, No. 1350: FUZZY

March 1, No. 1351: HOVER

March 2, No. 1352: DEITY

March 3, No. 1353: SPEAR

Will Wordle run out of words?

When Wordle began, creator Josh Wardle used a list of five-letter words he'd shared with his partner, picking only the words they recognized. While that's more than 2,000 words, more than half of them have already been used.

Wordle editor Tracy Bennett admitted that the game will eventually have to come to grips with the fact that the word list is not eternal.

"One possibility is that we could recycle old words at some point, like when we get close to the end," Bennett told a Wordle player on TikTok.

She also said the editors might throw all the words back in and reuse them, or allow plurals, or past tense, something that's not done now.

Bennett hasn't commented on it, but it seems possible Wordle could expand to six-letter words, too. Options abound.