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Thirty eight words hold I second and E third, and the old spelling rule applies to every one of them.
FIELD, YIELD, NIECE, PIECE and SIEGE all put I before E, which is exactly what the rhyme tells you to expect. The famous exception covers E before I after C, and this group has no C opener at all to trigger it.
That makes it one of the few patterns where a spelling rule genuinely helps. If you have I and E in the second and third boxes, you are already spelling it the way the rule predicts.
FIELD, PIECE, VIEWS, YIELD and NIECE are the most common. DIETS, SIEGE, FIERY and PIERS follow closely behind them.
Zero of the thirty eight carry a doubled letter. Every entry uses a different letter in each box, which is rare for a group of this size and useful when you are ruling options out.
S closes fifteen of the thirty eight, thirty nine percent, well ahead of E on eight and D on six.
R leads the fourth box on nine, giving PIERS, TIERS, BIERS and LIERS. Those plural shapes are a large part of why S dominates the ending.
Not across English as a whole, but it holds throughout this page. Every entry here puts the I first.
Both are common and both end IECE. With four letters confirmed you are choosing between a P and an N.
A depiction of Mary holding the body of Christ, borrowed from Italian. PIETY sits beside it and differs in the last box.