If you pick early words in wordle that have a lot of the commonly used letters you are likely to get to the correct word guess faster.
But say you were lazy and want to use the same 2 or 3 words all the time and then look at what letters hit or nearly hit to find the next word to guess.
the best pair of words is 'raise' and 'clout' which leaves an expected remaining 5.1 words that could be the answer given what letters hit and near hit.
And the best 3 words are raise clout nymph which leaves 1.75 words on average that could still match the patters you will have seen.
These won't be as good as Crane followed by optimal picking of the next word given pattersnt hat were hit. But it will be pretty close and good for the lazy.
