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Only nine words put A first and C third, and almost none of them is vocabulary you carry.
Words like ACTOR, ACRES and ACHES look like they should belong, but their C sits in the second box, not the third. This pattern needs a letter between the A and the C.
That letter is almost always a consonant. N, R and S take the second box in two words each, with C, E and L taking one apiece.
ASCOT is the one entry here most people would recognise, and ARCED is the next. Neither is common, which tells you how thin this page really is.
ANCLE, ANCON, ALCID, AECIA, ARCUS, ASCUS and ACCOY make up the rest. All are valid and none would occur to you during a puzzle.
O leads the fourth box on three words with I and U on two each. D and S close two words apiece and nothing else reaches more than one.
With nine words spread that thin, there is no distribution to work. Read the list against your confirmed boxes and take whatever fits.
No. ACTOR runs A, C, T, O, R, so its third letter is T. It sits on the A first and T third pattern instead.
It is the most recognisable word here, though none of this page is common. ARCED is the realistic alternative.
A bird of the auk family. It is one of the entries that makes this pattern feel like a dictionary exercise rather than a word game.