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48 five letter words start with EL, and four vowels share the third box almost equally between them.
A leads at about seventeen percent, with E, I and O all at fifteen. V takes ten and D four.
ELITE, ELDER, ELECT, ELBOW and ELVES are the entries most people would name, with ELEGY and ELUDE behind them.
A large share of the rest are first names, which inflates the count without adding anything you could play.
Set those aside and the page holds about seven usable words, spread across four branches that are nearly the same size.
ELECT, ELEGY and ELDER style forms cluster where a second E follows, and confirming that E rules the other three vowels out at once.
ELITE covers the I branch and its T and E are common endings, which makes it the sensible first move.
ELBOW is the follow up, since its B, O and W reach three branches that ELITE leaves completely untouched.
Yes, it uses E in the first and fourth boxes. That shape is common here, so a repeated E rarely narrows much on its own.
Its V sits on a branch holding little else, so an early V confirms the answer quickly, but it is a poor opening test.
A substantial share. EL opens a great many first names, so treat the count as generous rather than as a list of options.