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Twenty one words put M second and A third, and the group splits between an old core and two very modern words.
Most of this page is old vocabulary, but EMAIL entered English within living memory and IMAGE has been reshaped by screens and cameras. Both are now among the commonest words here.
SMACK, SMALL, SMART, SMASH, SMALT, SMARM and SMAIK all open the same way. S takes nine of the twenty one, more than any other letter.
They share a tone as well as a spelling. Most describe something sharp or sudden, a surprisingly consistent thread for a group this size.
A opens six of the twenty one and I opens four. AMAZE, AMASS and AMAIN sit on one side, IMAGE, IMAGO and IMAMS on the other, and none of them has anything to do with the SM group.
The fourth box spreads across eleven letters with nothing dominant, so this is a pattern where the opening letter tells you far more than the letters after it do.
They sit in opposite halves of the group. SMART covers the busiest opening, while IMAGE tests two vowels the SM branch never has.
The final adult stage of an insect after metamorphosis, and in psychology an idealised mental picture of someone. Two unrelated senses on one word.
Insincere flattery, the noun behind smarmy. It is the kind of word people know as an adjective and never as a noun.
AMAZE, comfortably. AMASS is ordinary but far less frequent, and they differ across the last two boxes.
A mix of smoke and haze, formed the same way as smog. It is a real meteorological term.