Ok, another failure: Wordle 216 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜

I always start with two words which cover common letters. I find that helps

Yes I do too. But the word that was desired in this one didn't contain any of those :-)

Oh dear. I start with octal and then siren -- what do you start with?

water

It's worth having a second "start" word using the other vowels and so on. octal+siren covers a lot of the common english letters, and 4/5 vowels.