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Only eleven words put I first and O third, and most of them come off two short stems. There is very little to work with.
I is an uncommon opening letter and requiring O in the third box cuts what is left to almost nothing. Eleven words is the whole pattern.
R takes the second box in four of them, more than any other letter, and D takes two. After that every remaining letter appears once.
N dominates the fourth box with five words, forty five percent, which is the strongest single signal on the page.
IRONS, IRONY, ICONS and IDOLS are the ones in ordinary use. IVORY belongs with them and is the one people forget.
IRONS, IRONY and IRONE share their first four letters, so that stem can swallow guesses. IKONS is a variant spelling of ICONS and both are on the list.
S closes four of the eleven, more than any other letter, and nothing else reaches more than two.
Not one word here repeats a letter. On a list this short that is useful, because a visible double rules the pattern out in one step.
Both appear on this list. ICONS is the ordinary spelling and IKONS is a variant that word game dictionaries accept.
Yes. It runs I, V, O, R, Y, so the O is third. The V in the second box is the only one in the group.
Because it is four letters. IRONS, IRONY and IRONE are the longer forms built on it, and all three are here.