Question for you Wordle-ists (may contain WordHurdle spoiler)

[intrepidity]

Here's the situation: 4-letter word, you guess "bear" and get the "_EAR" correct.

You have 5 guesses left.

How do you use them?

[Me.]

1. Clearly There Are Oyher Words You Could Use

and in a process of elimination get your word

hear
wear
dear

for a few

[CurtEastPoint]

2. use a word that has as many consonants as possible: FIND, for example

[intrepidity]

4. Yes: I'm asking which words you would use. nt

[femmedem]

3. I chose a 4-letter word that couldn't be the solution but eliminated/identified possible consonants.

I thought of as many 4-letter words ending in ear as I could, and used a word that used three consonants that could solve it.

[intrepidity]

5. What I'm getting at is:

which specific words use the most probable consonants in the number of remaining guesses.

[femmedem]

10. without telling you what I used, here are some possibilities

A few words that use three possible solutions:

wand
star
bran
find
pond
post
wish
yurt

[intrepidity]

7. I count at least 12 possible consonants

So there are 4 chances to eliminate those.

Which 4 words do you use?

[femmedem]

9. I was lucky and on my first guess, one of the consonants was a match.

But if it wasn't, I would continue to find words with as many possible consonants that could solve it as possible. Otherwise the odds are too high that you'd blow through your remaining guesses without solving it.

[imaginary girl]

6. Personally, I'd tend to find a word with two to three possible matches...

...because if you guess each individually, you could run out of guesses before you find the right one. Puff, for example, eliminates pear and fear (unless one of the letters is correct and then you have your answer.

[Srkdqltr]

8. Just keep guessing **ear words till you hit the right one.

Pick the most ordinary word. I have noticed that some words were aligned with things going on at the moment.

[William Seger]

11. YAWN FURL HOGS DIRT (if none of those, then it's a P)