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1173 five letter words begin with A, and the letter after it is a consonant almost every time.
L leads at about thirteen percent, R at twelve, N at nine and M at eight. B and D pick up another thirteen between them.
No branch runs away with it, which makes A one of the flatter openings and means the second letter rarely settles much on its own.
ABOUT, AFTER, AGAIN, ABOVE and ALONG are the entries you are most likely to want, and they sit on five different branches.
A is the most common vowel in five letter words, so a word starting with A often carries a second vowel later as well. ABOUT, AUDIO and AREAS all do.
That makes this group useful for clearing vowels early, which is worth more than it sounds when the rest of the word is still open.
ALLOW, APPLE, ADDED and APPLY all double their second letter. That shape turns up more often after A than after most openings.
So if the second and third boxes come back as the same letter, this group is where to look first.
It clears three vowels in one turn, which is its real value. The trade off is that B and T are less informative than R, S or L would be.
Two vowels in a row at the start is rare in English outside AU and AI. Most A words move straight to a consonant instead.
AROSE or ALERT style shapes, since they combine A with R, S, E, L and T, which are the five most frequent letters in this length.