In yesterday's puzzle, I guessed SUAVE whenI could also have guessed SAUTE. Yesterday, SAUTE would have been a better guess. So I started with SAUTE today, since it's a three vowel word using both S and T.
SAUTE was a complete bust, so I went with IRONY as my next guess, to identify the vowels in the word, and to try R and N, two common consonants.
While guess 1 was a bust, it eliminated so many options that after guess 2 FLOOR and CHORD were the only solutions I could think of. I went with FLOOR, simply because I identified FLOOR as a solution first. I had actually typed in FLOOR, but hadn't entered it before I decided I should be more thorough before I entered, and then I identified CHORD as another option. But because I had already typed in FLOOR, I decided to be lazy and hit Enter to submit FLOOR as a solution. A fortuitous guess - sometimes laziness is a benefit.