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Thirty four words put G first and E third, and fourteen of them repeat a letter. That is a striking share and almost all of it is a doubled E.
L takes the second box in fourteen words, forty one percent, and R takes twelve. Between them that is twenty six of the thirty four, leaving a handful spread across E, O, U and H.
GREEN, GREED, GREET and GREAT are the ones you would actually use. GREES, GREBE and GREGO are the ones you would not.
GREED, GREEK, GREEN, GREES and GREET share their first four letters. A guess anywhere in that block tells you the shape and nothing else, so break out of it as soon as you can.
They differ only in the last box and both are ordinary words, which makes them the clearest trap on the page. If the fifth letter is unconfirmed, guessing one of them leaves the other live.
S closes ten of the thirty four and E and T take six each. Those three letters between them close twenty two of the pattern, so the last box is where this one is usually decided.
Because G plus a consonant plus E in the third box lands naturally on an EE pair. The GLEE and GREE shapes account for most of the fourteen repeats in the group.
Only in the last box. GLEAN means to gather and GLEAM means to shine, and both sit on this pattern.
It holds GLEAM, GLEAN and GLENS and it is the largest single branch at fourteen words. It also avoids the GRE block, which makes it a better opening than it looks.