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737 five letter words begin with G, and two of the branches are consonant blends rather than vowels.
A takes about nineteen percent, R sixteen, O fourteen, U thirteen, L twelve and E ten. R and L are the blends, and between them they hold more than a quarter of the group.
GROUP, GAMES, GREAT, GUIDE and GOING are the most common entries. Two of the five sit on the GR blend.
GUIDE, GUEST and GUESS all put a U after the G that you do not hear when you say the word. It keeps the G hard rather than making a sound of its own.
That is easy to overlook when you guess from how a word sounds.
GREAT is the strongest single opener. It covers the GR blend and its E, A and T are three of the most common letters in the language.
If it misses entirely, GOING and GUIDE cover two more branches between them without repeating anything GREAT tested.
Those three between them touch every branch worth more than ten percent, which is as much ground as three guesses can cover here.
Without it the G would soften before E and I, turning the sound into a J. The U keeps it hard, which is why it appears in spelling but not in speech.
GREEN repeats its E, which wastes a box. GRAND tests five distinct letters and covers the same GR branch, so it rules out more.
Just over a quarter of the group. Testing one of the two early is a reasonable alternative to opening on a vowel branch.