Wordle rabbit hole...
This is a REALLY deep dive into Wordle and I didn't come close to reading the whole thing, but it makes a case for starting with mostly consonants... with just one vowel in each guess.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/what-a-perfect-wordle-guessing-strategy-teaches-us-about-english/ar-AATuYCX
"Nine letters—A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T—stand out far above the rest. The letter E is as close to an ideal initial guess as we can get, cutting the dictionary nearly in half: An E in our first guess tells us we’re dealing with either one of the 1,056 words containing it, or with one of the 1,259 that don’t have an E. But we want to avoid leaning heavily on other vowels in our early answers.
This is a key area where we’ll depart from a path many have chosen: It’s common for people to place a lot of vowels in their opening guesses (using words like arose). But we’re going to go in the opposite direction.
That’s because another way that English rules reduce randomness is how vowels work. There are only five vowels, and they’re needed in almost every word. Only 13 words in Wordle’s solutions have no A, E, I, O, or U, and those 13 are of the “sometimes Y” variety (Among the words available as guesses in Wordle, but not as solutions, there are five words that don’t have any vowels or the letter Y: crwth, cwtch, grrlls, grrrl, phpht.
This means that essentially every word you guess will have at least one vowel. If you use only one vowel per guess and choose a different vowel each time, you’ll have tested every possible vowel after the fifth turn."
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