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Twenty three words place N second and T third, and the group is built almost entirely from prefixes.
To ENTER is to go in and to INTER is to bury. They differ in the first box, both are ordinary English, and the resemblance is a coincidence of spelling rather than shared meaning.
ANTES, ANTIC, ANTSY, ANTRE, ANTAE and ANTAS all open the same way. A takes ten of the twenty three, more than any other letter.
None of them has anything to do with the insect. They come from Latin ante meaning before, from Greek anti, and from unrelated roots that happened to land on the same three letters.
I takes it in eight of the twenty three, ahead of E and R on five each. UNTIL, UNTIE, ANTIC and INTIL all run through it.
UNTIL tests the U and L, which ENTER never reaches, and it avoids repeating the E. UNTIL is the stronger probe.
A cave or cavern, a literary word used by Shakespeare. ANTRA is its plural and both appear here.
Into, in Scots and northern English. It sits one letter from UNTIL and means something quite different.
It is standard shorthand for intelligence in a military or business sense, listed independently of any company name.
Zero of the twenty three do. A repeated letter can be ruled out before you start.