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Eighty five words carry L second and I third, and the group divides into two halves that behave nothing alike.
S, F, B and C open fifty one of the eighty five between them, giving SLIDE, FLICK, BLIND and CLICK. These are the LI words most people would produce first.
ALIAS, ALIBI, ALIEN, ALIGN, ALIKE, ALIVE and ELITE all start with a vowel, and they carry meanings drawn from Latin and Greek rather than plain English stems. A opens ten of the eighty five.
N takes it in fifteen of the eighty five, giving BLIND, BLINK, CLING, CLINK, FLING, FLINT and SLING. M follows on ten with CLIMB, CLIME and BLIMP.
E closes eighteen of the eighty five and S closes fifteen, with K on ten from CLICK, BLINK and SLINK.
E leading the last box is unusual. On most pages S takes it comfortably, and here the silent E shapes are numerous enough to overturn that.
They sit in opposite halves of the group, so it depends what you already know. ALIVE tests two vowels and CLICK repeats the C, which makes ALIVE the cleaner probe.
A clime is a region or its climate and a cline is a gradual gradation in a biological trait. One letter apart with no shared meaning.
To caper or skip about, in Scots. It is the kind of dialect verb that fills out the back of this group.