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Thirty nine words put L first and A third, and just over half of them run LEA. One family carries the page.
E takes the second box in twenty of the thirty nine, fifty one percent. O follows on eight and I on five. After those three the counts drop into ones and twos, so the second box is really a question about E.
LEACH, LEARN, LEASE, LEAST and LEAVE are the reachable words in that branch, and LEADS, LEAKS, LEANS and LEAPS add the plural forms.
The depth is the problem. LEADS, LEADY, LEAFS, LEAFY, LEAKS and LEAKY sit in pairs two letters apart, so a guess inside LEA confirms the stem rather than the ending.
LOADS, LOANS, LOATH and LOAMY come from the O branch, and LOACH sits alongside them. It is smaller than LEA but the words are less alike, which makes a guess there worth more than its count suggests.
S closes twelve of the thirty nine, thirty one percent, and Y another seven. Between them that is nineteen of the page.
Only two words repeat a letter and both double the L at the very front, giving LLAMA and LLANO. A visible repeat points almost straight at that pair.
Both are common and they differ in three boxes. LEARN also tests N in the fourth box, which more words here take than any other letter.
Yes. It runs L, L, A, M, A, so the A sits third. The doubled L at the front is what makes it easy to overlook.
You are down to a thin remainder. I takes five words, Y takes three, and nothing else reaches more than two.