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60 words put B first and U third, and four different letters take a real share of the box between them.
R leads at about thirty two percent, O at twenty seven, L at twenty two and A at seventeen. Nothing dominates and nothing can be ignored.
BRUSH and BRUTE take the R branch, BOUND and BOUGH the O branch. The two behave nothing alike, since one runs a consonant blend and the other a vowel pairing.
That means a guess from one branch tells you very little about the other, which is unusual and makes this group slower than its size suggests.
BLUNT, BLUFF, BLUSH and BLURB all share their first three letters and cover the whole L branch between them.
Two of the four also double a letter in the last two boxes, which is worth testing once BLU is confirmed rather than treating as a long shot.
BLUE is four letters so it falls outside a five letter list. BLUES qualifies and keeps the same opening three letters.
BLUES, BLUNT, BLUFF, BLUSH and BLURB all run BLU, so about a quarter of the group sits in one shape. An L in the second box narrows things faster than the branch size suggests.
No. BUILD puts U in the second box and I in the third. The U needs to sit one place later to qualify for this pattern.