aka Ken Smith: Solving Wordle with letter frequency

The most frequently used letters in English are sometimes said to be these, in this order:#

If you use words made up of the letters on the left and then center of that list, you'll have a good chance of knowing most of the letters in the day's Wordle solution. #

If your first two guesses are OATEN and BRUSH, you'll know whether ten of the most common letters are in today's solution.#

If you continue with CLAIM, you'll now about fourteen of the most common letters. Continue with WOODY or GOODY or FOODY and you'll have covered 17 of the most commonly-used letters in English.#

And you'll have some clues about where some of those letters do and do not appear in the solution.#

Today, for example, OATEN reveals that there is an E in the fourth position and an A but not in the second or fourth positions. BRUSH reveals that there is a B but not in the first position. #

CLAIM reveals that the A is also NOT in the third position. Native speakers of English know that it's not very likely that the A is in the final position, so it's very likely in the first position. #

WOODY or FOODY or GOODY reveals that the puzzle solution ends in Y. The A therefore must be in the first position.#

So now we know that the answer is either AB()EY or A()BEY. Likely from this point we'd quickly guess ABBEY, and we'd be correct.#

So: tomorrow, I'll enter OATEN, then BRUSH, then CLAIM, then WOODY or FOODY or GOODY and see if I can solve in the two remaining steps.#

PS. It doesn't look like this strategy would work in Hard Mode.#

PPS. OATEN, BRUSH, FILMY, and DRECK will tell you something about the presence and position of 18 of the most frequently appearing letters in the language.#