I must be one of the few who stick to a chosen few words for the Wordle blanks. I figure I'll just keep using them until they're chosen, because they eliminate most of the vowels and a lot of consonants.
Of course, the Used Wordle List helps enormously. Not sure what I'd do without it.
Using hard mode, it’s not possible. I used to always use the same two first words to get all the vowels taken care of. But since you have to use the information you got from the first word in the second word, I’d have to have a large number of second words at hand.