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Fifty six words carry O second and D third, and E after the D shapes most of them.
E takes it in twenty of the fifty six. CODES, MODEL, NODES, LODEN and YODEL all run through it, and the MODE family alone supplies several.
BODGE, DODGE, LODGE, MODGE and PODGE all close the same way, with DODGY and PODGY alongside them. G takes the fourth box in eight of the fifty six.
The sound is consistent and so is the register. Most of these are informal or dialect words, with LODGE and DODGE the two that made it into ordinary English.
It is the commonest word on the page and it fits none of the shapes around it, which makes it easy to overlook when you are reasoning from the group.
S closes eleven of the fifty six, Y closes nine and E closes eight. Between them that is most of the last box.
The Y ending is worth noting. DODGY, PODGY, PODDY, NODDY and DODDY all carry it, and several double a consonant first.
TODAY tests the T, A and Y, none of which the MODE family uses. MODEL sits inside the busiest branch and rules out less.
A triangular piece of fabric inserted into a garment to make it flare. It is a dressmaking term.
All three come from iodine, and IODID and IODIN are older spellings that survive in word lists. None of them is common.
To do something clumsily or botch it, in English dialect. It sits in the ODGE cluster with DODGE and LODGE.