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Twenty three words hold N second and E third, and two very common words sit one letter apart.
Both run ENEM and split at the last box. One is a person who opposes you and the other is a medical procedure, and confusing them in writing is a memorable mistake.
They are also both common enough that a puzzle could reasonably want either. Nothing in the distribution helps you choose between them.
KNEAD, KNEED, KNEEL and KNEES all carry a silent K, and three of them relate to the joint. KNELL and KNELT share the opening without sharing the meaning.
S opens seven of the twenty three and K opens six, which is most of the group. A takes the fourth box in five and L takes four.
Six of the twenty three repeat a letter, most of them the double E in KNEED, KNEEL, KNEES and SNEER. It is a predictable place for a repeat to hide.
MNEME is the outlier, a term for memory in early psychology. Almost nothing else in English opens with MN.
SNEAK tests the S, A and K without repeating. KNEES doubles the E, which spends part of the guess on a letter you already hold.
To anoint someone with oil, particularly as a last rite. It is archaic and mostly met in older literature.
A latch on a door, in Scots and northern English. To sneck a door is to latch it.