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Twenty three words put E first and I third, and X takes the second box more often than any other letter. On most pages that would be unthinkable.
X appears in the second box in six of the twenty three words, twenty six percent. D follows on four and V on three. The EX prefix is doing the work, and it is why a letter most players treat as a last resort belongs near the front of your thinking here.
EXIST, EXITS and EXILE are the three worth reaching for. EXINE, EXIES and EXING fill out the branch and none of them is likely to come to you unprompted.
S closes seven of these and E another six, which is thirteen of the twenty three between them. T adds three more. Confirm the last box early and most of the pattern falls away at once.
Not one of the twenty three repeats a letter, so a visible double rules this pattern out entirely.
The fourth box is more open than the rest, with C and T on five each and N on four. It is the last thing to settle here.
Yes. It runs E, D, I, F, Y, so the I sits third. EDICT and EDITS come from the same D branch.
Because EX is a common English prefix and a five letter word built on it usually lands an I in the third box. It is a quirk of this pattern rather than anything about X in general.
Both are here and both come from the L branch of two words. They differ in two boxes, so as a pair they narrow more than most.