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54 words put D first and L third, and the vowel between them favours E more than anything else.
E takes about thirty three percent of the box, O twenty four, A seventeen and U thirteen.
E leads but the other three all stay live, so a first guess that misses on the vowel still leaves you three branches to work through.
DELTA, DELAY and DELVE share their first three letters, and DOLLS, DOLLY and DOLCE do the same on the O branch. Between them those two families cover more than half the group.
That makes the vowel the single most useful thing to settle first, since landing it usually drops you into a family of three or four rather than a scattered list.
DALES sits on the A branch and DULCE on the U, and neither shares much with the bigger groups beyond the opening D. Both are worth holding until E and O have failed.
DOLLS and DOLLY both double the L into the fourth box, so a second L is the sensible next test once O is confirmed. Nothing on the E branch does the same.
No. DEALS puts E in the second box and A in the third, with the L fourth. The L needs to sit one place earlier to qualify.
The E branch. DELTA and DELAY are both words you would meet in ordinary use, which is less true of the smaller A and U branches.
Yes, D first, E second, L third. It sits in the DEL family and differs from DELTA only across the last two boxes.