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Six hundred six words begin with A, and the letter after it is a consonant almost every time.
L leads the second box on seventy seven words, thirteen percent, with R on sixty four, B and M on fifty one each and N on forty eight. Twenty six letters appear there in total.
That spread is too wide for a second box guess to settle much. The third box is the better target, where I and O take one hundred sixty one of the six hundred six.
ARISE, ALONE, ADOPT, ABOUT and AGREE are the entries a puzzle is most likely to be after, with ANGLE and AWARD behind them.
E fills the fourth box in one hundred one of the six hundred six, seventeen percent, and S closes one hundred twenty two, twenty percent. Those are the two most reliable facts here.
So an opening that tests E in the fourth box and S at the end covers a lot at once. ARISE does exactly that, which is why it is such a common first word.
Seventy six of the six hundred six repeat a letter, thirteen percent. High enough to check, not high enough to assume.
Most come from doubled consonants in the middle, as in ABBEY, ALLOY and ARROW. A visible repeat narrows the page without deciding it.
It is among the strongest. It tests the commonest fourth letter and the commonest ending together.
None safely. L leads on seventy seven words but that is only thirteen percent, so the second box stays open a long time.
One hundred twenty two, which is twenty percent. E follows on ninety five.