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C first and Y third covers 18 words, and almost none of them are words you would use.
O leads the box between at about thirty nine percent, with H, L and R tied at seventeen. A Y in the third box needs a consonant cluster in front of it, and English offers very few.
CRYPT is the entry most players would name and COYLY is the only other one in ordinary use. CHYME and CHYLE are medical terms and COYPU names a rodent, so the rest of the page is specialist vocabulary.
That makes this one of the few patterns where guessing the most common word is close to guessing the answer outright.
If CRYPT does not fit the tiles, COYLY is the next move, and after that the page has little left to offer.
No. CYCLE puts Y in the second box and a second C in the third. The Y needs to sit one place later.
COYLY is the other one, though it is a long way behind. Everything else here is technical or regional.
Because it is standing in for a vowel. CRYPT and CHYME have no other vowel in them, which is what forces the Y into that position.