Any strategy in CHEATLE should involve using the most commonly used letters FIRST.
I typically use PLANE as my first guess. This will either eliminate, or include several common letters.
My second guess is usually SHTIK which again, eliminates or includes several more letters that have not been used previously.
For my third guess I typically use CROWD which again doesn't repeat any letters from previous guesses, or BLUED which repeats the E from the first guess..
Usually, between these three guesses, I will have narrowed the list of available words to below 10, from which I select common American English words first . . . as more common American English words are more likely to be the solution.