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One hundred fifty one words put A in the second box and L in the third, and that size is the whole story. This pattern narrows slowly.
One hundred fifty one words is roughly three times what a pattern like AZ leaves you. S, B and P each start twenty one or fewer of them, so no single opening letter cuts the field by much. Expect to need more than one guess before anything useful falls away.
Twenty three words repeat the L in the fourth box. BALLS, CALLS, FALLS, HALLS and MALLS are the same word with the front letter swapped, so guessing two of them in a row tells you almost nothing new. Change the ending instead, or change the fourth letter.
VALUE, SALON and SALAD each avoid the doubled L and land on a different tail. RALLY covers the Y ending that twenty words in this group share.
Forty six of these end in S, thirty percent. If your puzzle has ruled out a plural, that single fact removes nearly a third of the list at a stroke.
The AL pairing sits comfortably after almost any consonant, and the LL and LS endings then repeat across all of them. It is the ending that creates the sameness, not the AL itself.
Yes. It runs S, A, L, S, A, so the A is second and the L is third. So is SALAD, which shares its first three letters.
E leads with twenty eight words, then L with twenty three and A with seventeen. Those three cover sixty eight of the group between them.