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Forty one words put O second and C third, and one ending swallows most of the group.
K takes the fourth box in seventeen of the forty one. BOCKS, COCKS, DOCKS, HOCKS, JOCKS, LOCKS, MOCKS, NOCKS, POCKS, ROCKS, SOCKS and YOCKS all share it.
They differ in the first box and nowhere else. That makes the shape easy to reach and very hard to finish, because the pattern gives you no help with the one letter that matters.
LOCAL, FOCUS, VOCAL, FOCAL and COCOA are the entries you are most likely to want. LOCUS and MOCHA are worth remembering too.
S takes twenty of the forty one, forty nine percent, mostly from the OCKS plurals. Nothing else gets near it.
Six of the forty one repeat a letter, coming from the CC words like BOCCE, COCCI and ZOCCO.
The pattern will not do it for you. Spend a guess on first letters instead, something that tests several of B, D, L, M, R and S at once.
FOCUS tests the U and S without repeating. LOCAL uses the L twice, which spends part of the guess.
A plain plinth supporting a column or a statue. It is an architecture term and the least guessable of the common entries here.
To deceive or trick someone, the verb behind hocus pocus. It sits beside FOCUS and LOCUS in the same shape.
Yes, it is the accepted short form of vocabulary and appears in word lists in its own right.