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A in the second box and C in the third gives you seventy seven words, and the fourth letter is where they part company.
Twenty two words take E next, as in FACES and RACER. Sixteen take K, and those drag a hard ending behind them. Thirteen take H, which nearly always means the soft sound of CACHE or the odd spelling of YACHT.
Working out which branch you are in narrows things fast, since the H branch is short enough to read straight through.
BACON and MACRO both step around the crowded K ending. FACTS and PACKS cover the S tail that so much of this group shares.
Twenty seven of the seventy seven finish with S, thirty five percent of the list. Most are plurals of four letter words like FACT and PACK. If your puzzle has already ruled out a plural, you have cut the field down substantially in one step.
Yes. It runs Y, A, C, H, T, so the A is second and the C is third. The spelling throws people because the letters and the sound do not line up.
M leads with eleven words and T follows with ten. P has nine, and seventeen letters appear in that box in total.
About twenty two words. A is next at six and T after that at five, giving shapes like FACTS and PACTS.