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Fifteen words put D first and B third, and ten of them open with DE. This is the DEB page with a few strays attached.
E takes the second box in ten of the fifteen, sixty seven percent. O follows on four and A manages one. Only three letters appear there at all.
So the second box is nearly settled before you start. The real work is in the last two.
DEBUT, DEBIT, DEBTS and DEBUG are the ones in ordinary use and every one of them is genuinely common. That is rare for a pattern this size.
They split cleanly though. DEBUT and DEBUG share a U in the fourth box, DEBIT takes an I, and DEBTS takes a T. One guess in the fourth box usually resolves the group.
DEBAR, DEBUS, DEBEL and DEBYE fill out the branch and none of those is likely to come to mind.
DOBBY, DOBIE, DOBLA and DOBRA make up the O branch and all of them are obscure. DABBA is the lone A entry.
Three words on the page repeat a letter, and DABBA, DEBBY and DOBBY are where those come from. A visible double sends you straight out of the useful part of the list.
DEBUT is the most common, and it tests U in the fourth box, which DEBUG also needs. That covers two of them at once.
Yes, it is a unit used in physics for electric dipole moment. It is one of the less reachable entries in the E branch.
A currency unit. It sits in the O branch with DOBLA and DOBIE, none of which you would guess without help.