Wordle 811: Recalculating

I opened with RIDGE today and got greens for the R and E. This is odd since I don't think that I've ever gotten a puzzle with the first and last letter. I probably have, but this is throwing me out of whack. It has pretty much stopped me in my tracks here. Where do I go from here? Especially here, where I just want to use RANGE or ROUGE, which can't work. I struggled and then I thought about what got me into the rabbit hole of NYT Games, the crossword. And a word that is used often in the crossword is RUPEE. Let's give that a try, I guess. 

RUPEE is not the answer, but it does give me a yellow U, so progress has been made. Wow, REVUE would have been a good second guess too, but the option of a second E has been taken away from me. I keep thinking about ROUGE, which isn't right, but there has to be an O in this word. I type in ROXUE and thinking through it. Then I see it. I see the answer. ROUTE. I hit enter and see green tiles turn over until I get to the T, which is gray?!? I do a quick scan of the available letters and see that ROUSE looks to be the answer. I hit enter less confidently than before (but still pretty confidently) and get a solve in four.