After guess 3 I was locked into the HIC ending... I went ahead and wrote out all the single vowel and consonant pairings possible for the first two letters... but left out the letter E despite not having played it. Needless to say... I wasted a lot of time sounding out complete gibberish before realizing my mistake.
Speaking of guess #3, I had ICHOR, as per usual a million times cooler than the actual Wordle...