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421 five letter words start with E, and the second box is spread thinner here than on almost any other opening letter.
N leads at only about fourteen percent, then L at eleven, X at ten and M at nine. Nothing else reaches eight.
That flatness is unusual and it means the second letter is rarely worth chasing on its own here.
EXTRA, EXIST, EXACT and EXAMS put an X in the second box, which is ten percent of the group.
X almost never justifies a guess anywhere else in the language, and this is the clearest exception to that.
EMAIL, EVERY, EVENT, ENTER and EARLY are the entries you are most likely to want, and no two of them share a branch.
EARLY is the strongest opener. Its A, R, L and Y spread across four positions and none of them repeats.
If it misses, ENTER covers the largest branch, though its repeated E costs you a box.
E combines with almost every consonant and with several vowels, so the words scatter instead of clustering into a few productive openings.
It is a common word but its G and H are weak tests, and the I sits in a branch that holds little else. EARLY rules out more.
A fair number, ENTER, EVERY and ERROR among them. If an E turns up again later in the word, those shapes are where to look.