Yeah, I'm kicking myself. I immediately thought of 'treat', then talked myself out of it and went with 'tread'. DANG IT. It's been a while since my last 2.
Yeah, this was a classic Wordle word. After guess #1 I came up with 6 words it could be, and ordered them thusly:
taste
waste
paste
haste
baste
caste
Fortunately for me it was not 'caste' as I would have missed it. Even more fortunately it was my 2nd possibility. I checked my history and I don't believe we've EVER had a word ending in 'aste' before, which is surprising.