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Seventy one words put C first and I third, and the CH opening takes nearly half of them. One branch decides this page.
H takes the second box in thirty five of the seventy one, forty nine percent. L follows on eleven and R on ten. Nothing else reaches more than five, so the first real question is whether the second letter is H.
CHILD, CHIEF, CHIME, CHINA, CHIPS and CHIVE are the ordinary words inside it. The trouble is depth. CHIRK, CHIRL, CHIRM, CHIRO, CHIRP, CHIRR, CHIRT and CHIRU all share four letters, and CHICA, CHICH, CHICK, CHICO and CHICS do the same.
N takes the fourth box in thirteen words and R in eleven, which between them is twenty four of the seventy one.
S closes sixteen of the page, twenty three percent. Only four words repeat a letter, so a visible double is a strong narrowing signal here rather than a common one.
It is the single best assumption on the page at thirty five of the seventy one, but it is not a majority. CLIMB and CRIBS show the other branches are live.
On this list it is the five letter entry for the pepper, also written chilli. CHILI sits alongside it as a variant.
One box. A CLIME is a region or climate, a CLINE is a gradual change across a range. Both are valid and both are easy to miss.