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Only twenty four words start with EL, and not one of them repeats a letter.
O takes it in five of the twenty four, A in four, and E and V in three each. Ten letters appear there across a page of twenty four, which is as thin a spread as it sounds.
ELECT, ELITE, ELBOW and ELDER are the entries most people would produce. ELOPE and ELUDE follow and both are reachable.
ELAIN, ELDIN, ELEMI, ELFIN, ELOGE, ELOGY, ELOIN, ELOPS, ELSIN and ELVAN make up much of the rest, and none of them is vocabulary you carry.
So the practical page is a handful of words, well short of the count.
Both are common and both take E in the third box, which only three words do. If your puzzle points at EL, those two are the first guesses worth making.
E closes seven of the twenty four, twenty nine percent, and N takes six, twenty five percent. Between them they close more than half the page.
Nothing here repeats a letter, so a visible double rules the pattern out in a single step.
Both are ordinary words and they differ in the last three boxes. ELECT is the more common of the two in writing.
Thirteen of the twenty four do. ELOPE, ELUDE and ELITE take the E, and ELAIN, ELFIN and ELOIN take the N.
A fragrant resin used in varnishes. It is one of the entries that fills out the count without being guessable.