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B first and C third gives 33 words, but only four of them turn up in ordinary use.
A takes about twenty seven percent and E, O and U all take twenty one. The split is even, and so is the shortage of familiar words on each branch.
BUCKS, BACON, BACKS and BICEP are the entries most players would name. Everything else runs to borrowed words and rare forms.
Three of those four put a K or an O straight after the C, so the fourth box is more predictable here than the second one.
BOCCE, BOCCI and BUCCO all repeat the C across the third and fourth boxes.
None of them is common, so a second C is a test worth making only after the ordinary shapes have failed.
No. BEACH puts E in the second box and A in the third, with the C fourth. The C needs to sit one place earlier.
BACON. It covers the largest branch and its N is a letter none of the other common entries use.
They split on the second box rather than the last, so a miss there tells you nothing about the ending. That makes them a weaker pair than they look.