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Every one of the eleven words with B second and A third begins with A, which settles the first box before you start.
The AB stem is the only route into this pattern at five letters, which is why eleven of them share it. ABATE, ABACK, ABASE and ABAFT all follow it.
That is unusual. On most pages the first box is the hardest to pin down, and here it is free.
The fourth box is the real question, with seven letters appearing across eleven words. C and S lead on three each, covering ABACA, ABACI, ABACK, ABASE, ABASH and ABASK.
ABATE, ABACK and ABASE are the three you are most likely to want. ABAFT and ABASH turn up in older writing and are worth recognising.
The rest are specialist. ABACA is a fibre plant, ABAMP a unit of current and ABAND an obsolete verb.
The pair only appears after an opening A in words of this length. ABATE, ABASE and ABACK all show the same AB stem.
Both are ordinary verbs and they differ only in the fourth box. ABATE is the more common of the two in general writing.
A unit of electric current in the older centimetre gram second system. It is one of the specialist entries filling out the back of this list.