Enter criteria and click Find Words
Nine five letter words start with IT, and two of them carry the whole page.
A and E lead at about thirty three percent each, with C at twenty two and H at eleven. With nine words in total those shares are two or three entries apiece.
ITEMS is by a very wide margin the most common entry, and ITCHY is the only other one in ordinary use.
Guess ITEMS and the puzzle is usually over. If it does not fit, ITCHY is the only realistic alternative left.
With a list this short the page is more useful for confirming you have read the tiles correctly than for working through options.
It is in the word list, but as a country name rather than ordinary vocabulary. Most puzzles would not use it as an answer.
IT is a complete word, so English builds very few longer roots on it. Nine entries is close to everything the language offers.
No, all five letters are distinct, which makes it a clean opener as well as much the likeliest answer.