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35 five letter words start with ER, and a large share of what fills the list are first names.
I and U lead at about fourteen percent each, then A at eleven and G, N and a second R at nine.
ERROR, ERASE, ERECT, ERODE and ERUPT are the entries a player would recognise, with ERRED behind them.
Everything else on the page is either a first name or a technical form, so six words is close to the whole usable list.
That makes the count of 35 misleading in the same way the J page is, though on a much smaller scale.
It repeats its R across the second, third and fifth boxes. Three of one letter in a word this short is rare, and it settles the answer immediately.
ERASE is the best opener. Its A, S and E are three of the commonest letters at this length and it does not commit to the R shape.
If a second R does come back, ERROR and ERRED are almost the only places left to go.
ERUPT. Its U, P and T reach three branches while ERODE repeats its E, which costs a box.
ER opens a long list of first names in several languages, and word lists collect those alongside ordinary vocabulary.
Yes, it uses E in the first and last boxes. That shape is common enough here that a final E rarely settles much on its own.