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Eighty four words hold O second and W third, and most of them are a short verb wearing an ending.
BOWER, COWER, DOWER, LOWER, MOWER, POWER, ROWER, SOWER and TOWER all close in ER, and BOWED, COWED, LOWED, MOWED, ROWED, SOWED and TOWED all close in ED. E takes the fourth box in thirty three of the eighty four.
That is the difficulty here. Confirming OWE and a final R still leaves a wide choice of openers, and the pattern offers nothing to break the tie.
The efficient move tests several first letters at once rather than confirming an ending you already have.
TOWNS, DOWNS, GOWNS, BOWLS and HOWLS are the plural nouns. TOWEL, BOWEL and DOWEL take L instead, and DOWRY, COWRY and HOWDY close on Y.
S closes seventeen of the eighty four, Y closes fourteen, D closes thirteen and R closes twelve. No single ending dominates, which is unusual for a group this size.
TOWNS tests the N and S, which the OWER and OWED shapes never use. POWER sits inside the busiest branch and rules out very little.
A dowry is property brought to a marriage and a cowry is a small glossy shell once used as money.
A favourite haunt or meeting place, in Scots, especially a pub. It doubles the F and is the one repeat on the page.
A large ape like creature of Australian folklore. BOWIE and DOWIE sit in the same shape.
Thirteen of them do. Short verbs like bow, cow, low, mow, row, sow, tow and vow all take a plain ED, and each one lands in this pattern.