Wordle 426 4/6
CRAMP
STORE
SHRUB
SHRUG
I saw both shrub and shrug, but unfortunately shrub first. Whaddya gonna do, right?
Wordle 426 5/6
RATIO
PRUNE
BURLY
SCRUM
SHRUB
Wordle 426 2/6*
SPIRE
SHRUG
Wordle 426 5/6
EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
SHRUB
SHRUG
Wordle 426 4/6
CRANE
TIROS
SHRUB - another SHRUB first
SHRUG
Wordle 426 4/6*
MERCY
BURKA
VIRUS
SHRUG
Wordle 426 3/6
EARTH
HERON
SHRUG
Wordle 426 3/6*
YOURS
SUGAR
SHRUG
Took just a minute to do this one. A relief after yesterday’s TWANG slog.
Wordle 426 3/6*
Adept
Chino
Shrug
Got a lucky 3.
Wordle 426 3/6*
IRATE
CHORD
SHRUG
Nice way to start a Friday.
Wordle 426 3/6
SLANT
CHORE
SHRUG
Eh, whatever. 
Good thing I checked to see whether SHRUB had already been used.
Wordle 426 4/6*
BEARD
GROIN
RUGBY
SHRUG
Wordle 426 5/6
LOUPE
TUNIC
FRAUD
SHRUB
SHRUG
I wasted some guesses looking for vowels that weren’t there, though suppose I eliminated enough consonants along the way too. I was a little bummed when that B turned over, but a win’s a win.
Wordle 426 4/6* 8/19/2022
TWANG → An odd start. Ends in G, but not NG? I was casting around for words to use and hit on an odd one…
DROOG → Which probably should have sunk me (double O? D?), but the R gave me some ideas.
SPRIG → And not much could go between the S and the R, so, I guess…
SHRUG
Frustrated me after the first guess, but then got fun after the second. I don’t often go four guesses without checking for an E.
A straightforward four for tomorrow’s.
Wordle 427 4/6
It seems very peculiar that DEALT was ever the top pick. D is way down the list of most frequent letters in Wordle solutions so far, fifteenth out of 26 letters, used only 67 times in 426 solutions. (Finally updated my stats!)
The top Wordlebot picks you mention all seem to have the A and E vowels in common (except for one-vowel SLANT*) so the difference is strictly the consonants. LEAST, SLATE, and TALES all have LST (hence share all 5 letters; only difference is their order**), LEANT has LNT, SLANT has LNST (the best of both worlds wrt consonants), but PLATE puzzles me as P is almost as infrequent as D, appearing only 69 times. So I have no idea why Wordlebot would rate either DEALT or PLATE so high.
The other thing that puzzles me is that the most frequent consonant in the 426 Wordle solutions is R, and it isn’t even close: R appears 179 times, while second-place T has shown up 149 times. But R isn’t in any of these top-rated Wordlebot starting words. You should be ALERT***ed to that.
*My starting word.
**If I had to pick one of those three, I’d go with SLATE because if E is in a Wordle solution, it’s at the end >1/3 of the time. It would not be TALES since S is almost never the final letter, only 7 times so far. Wardle seems to have excluded common 5-letter words which were 4-letter roots plus an S, like TREES or JUMPS.
***ALERT has five of the six most frequently appearing letters so far in Wordle, the exception being O. If I was OK with two vowels in my starting word, I’d be giving it a try.
Wordle 426 4/6
MANOR
TRUCE
RUGBY
SHRUG
Wordle 426 2/6
STARE
SHRUG
Lucky start, plus my habit of looking for consonant-pairs to start, helped me see a 2–and it’s been a long time!
Almost forgot today- first deuce in ages!
Wordle 426 2/6
HEART
SHRUG
I am a big fan of checking both L and R specifically to reduce the number of consonant pairs that could start a word. In general, that only leaves H and W as common ‘second consonants.’
I suppose whirl would take them all out in one shot, but that would be a terrible opener.