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One hundred seventy four words put I second and N third, and the letter after the N does most of the sorting.
G takes the fourth box in twenty seven of the one hundred seventy four, K in twenty and C in seventeen. Those give the ING, INK and INCH shapes, as in RINGS, LINKS and CINCH.
E actually leads on thirty five, ahead of all three consonants. LINES, DINER, FINES and MINED all run through it, and the shape is easy to overlook because it makes no distinctive sound.
So if you are testing the fourth box, E is the better first probe even though ING and INK feel more characteristic of the pattern.
LINKS, SINCE, FINAL, LINES and KINDS are the most common. MINOR, RINGS, VINYL, FINDS and WINGS all come up regularly too.
S takes sixty five of the one hundred seventy four, thirty seven percent, with Y on thirty. Ruling out a plural is worth more here than any guess at the front of the word.
LINKS tests the K and S, which sit in two of the busiest boxes. SINCE repeats nothing but its letters are less discriminating.
IN sits inside dozens of short stems like LINE, RING, MIND and KIND, and each of those takes several endings. The count climbs to one hundred seventy four as a result.
An early term for a binary digit, now replaced by bit. It is a piece of computing history rather than live vocabulary.
Dingy means drab or grubby and a dingo is the Australian wild dog. One letter apart and nothing else in common.