CHAIR, LOUSE, got four out of five letters and there are only 8 possible words CEDAR confirmed CA_ER but still 7 options
BANGS and PAVED ruled out 5 of those but guessing CARER rather than CATER. I shouldn't have tried CEDAR as that was ruled out by PAVED later and would have given my 2 tries for the final two options.
All those who started with RATED will have a much easier time