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Sixty five words carry A in the second box and P in the third, and every single one of them opens with a consonant.
PAPER is far and away the most common word in this group. HAPPY, RAPID, MAPLE and VAPOR follow it, and between them they use several different fourth letters, so they make a good spread of opening guesses.
Twelve words put a second P in the fourth box, eighteen percent, and HAPPY, NAPPY and KAPPA are the ones you will recognise. Several of those then finish with Y, which is why PY is one of the commonest two letter endings here.
The rest of the field spreads out more evenly. E in the fourth box covers twenty words, the largest branch of all, and T starts nine of the sixty five, more than any other letter.
Rarely. Seven words here end in Y and most double the P first, so if you have A, P and a trailing Y, the doubled shape is much the better bet.
Yes, one P and one L. People double it by mistake because so many of its neighbours in this group do.
S with fourteen words and R with nine. TAPER and CAPER both take the R ending and share the same fourth letter.
Not one. All sixty five open with a consonant, so the first box is never a vowel on this pattern.