Consider spelling out “5” as “five”.

This small standalone number is outside the reviewed time, money, percentage, date, and compound-number exceptions. Delivery or naming can still matter, so the edit requires preview.

Example

[Verse]
I need 5 reasons

[Verse]
I need five reasons

The fix

In the workbench this finding carries one control, labelled Replace with five. The change is contextual, so it is previewed as a diff in your document first and applies only when you confirm it.

Source

The guideline this rule enforces, as cited on every finding it reports: