I prefer to start my first guess with A and have as many vowels as possible - https://word-finder.com/words-that-start-with/a/.
Audio is a good example of a good starting word from my experience and 90% of all the games it is my opening word. Curious about others, do you also have one favorite opening word or do you mostly shuffle them from game to game?
I love wordle, my first two guesses have all of the vowels so then I can try some consonant heavy words to eliminate letters. I often get the word on the third try and have not lost yet. I also play the 6 letter wordle game.