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Only eight words put C first and Y third, which makes this one of the shortest lists on the site.
Y in the third box needs a consonant cluster or a vowel in front of it, and very few of those follow a C. O takes the second box in four of the eight, H takes two, and L and R take one each.
CRYPT is the one word here most people would produce. COYLY and COYER are reachable. CHYME and CHYLE are anatomical terms, COYPU is a rodent, CLYPE is dialect, and COYED is a verb form you would never reach for.
E closes three of the eight and nothing else takes more than one. P leads the fourth box on three words.
Nothing here repeats a letter, so a visible double rules the pattern out entirely. With eight words there is no distribution worth reading, only the list.
On this pattern it usually is. It is the only entry most people carry, and the rest are specialised enough that a puzzle would need to hint at them.
A large semiaquatic rodent, also called a nutria. It sits in the O branch with COYLY, COYER and COYED.
No. CYCLE has Y in the second box and C in the third, so it sits on the C first and C third pattern instead.