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Eighteen words put M first and A third, and more than half of them open MEA.
E takes the second box in ten of the eighteen, fifty six percent. I follows on four, O on two, and A and Y take one each.
MEALS, MEANS, MEANT, MEATS and MEATY are the ordinary words inside it, with MEADS, MEALY, MEANY, MEASE and MEATH filling it out.
They differ almost entirely in the last two boxes, so a guess anywhere in MEA confirms three letters and leaves the real question open. MEANS and MEANT differ only at the end, as do MEATS and MEATY.
S closes seven of the eighteen, thirty nine percent, and Y another three. N and T tie for the fourth box at four words each.
MIAOU, MIAOW and MIAUL sit in the I branch and all three are variant spellings of a cat noise, which is a strange corner of the page to land on.
MOANS and MOATS are the O branch, and either one is a better splitter than another MEA guess because it changes the second box as well as the ending.
Both are very common and they differ only in the last box. If the fifth letter is unconfirmed, neither is a good use of a turn.
Both appear on this list, as does MIAUL. They are variant spellings and all three sit in the I branch.
An Australian acacia tree. It is the only word here with Y in the second box and one of two that repeat a letter.