It is indeed. Have you tried Octordle? I played these two games as well as the original Wordle for awhile. Seemed the harder I tried the worse I did. Some very peculiar words - perhaps not so much to the Englishter friends.
It is. I have found it to be best to use three completely random words to start with which don't repeat any letters. Then try and work out the individual words. My success rate is much higher this way, rather than try to work out words too soon. It does however mean that's impossible to work out all 4 words in less than 7 shots, unless of course any of your first random words are correct!