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Thirty nine words put N second and A third, and several of them open with a letter you do not pronounce.
GNATS, GNASH, GNAWS and GNARL all begin with a G nobody says. KNACK, KNAVE and KNAPS do the same with K. G opens seven of the thirty nine and K opens five.
That matters when you are working backwards from a sound. If you have heard the word in your head, the opening letter may not be the one you expect.
SNAKE, SNACK, SNAIL, SNARE and ENACT are the most common. SNAPS, KNACK and GNATS come up regularly too.
R takes it in thirteen of the thirty nine, well ahead of P on four. SNARE, SNARL, GNARL, KNARS and INARM all run through it.
UNAPT, UNARM, UNARY and UNAIS are the un prefix doing ordinary negating work. U opens five of the thirty nine, high for a letter that rarely starts a word.
They split in the last two boxes. SNAKE tests the K and E while SNACK tests the C and K, so SNAKE covers marginally more.
Both were pronounced in older English and the sound dropped away while the spelling stayed put. The same thing happened to KNEE and GNAW.
The curved handle of a scythe. It is the kind of tool word that survives in word lists long after the tool itself.
It began as military slang and is now an ordinary word for a mess or a hitch. Most people use it without knowing its origin.
One does. GNARR, a variant of gnar meaning to snarl, is the entry with the doubled letter.