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Four hundred forty four words begin with L, and the second box is a vowel in all but two of them.
O takes the second box in one hundred seven of the four hundred forty four, A in one hundred five, I in ninety four, E in sixty nine and U in forty eight. Y adds nineteen more and only seven letters appear there in total.
LOOSE, LARGE, LIGHT, LEARN and LUNCH come from different vowels and share almost nothing with each other. Guessing across them covers the page far faster than the same number of words from one branch.
LLAMA and LLANO put a second L in that box, and they are the whole exception. Both came into English from Spanish and kept their spelling.
So for practical purposes the second box is a vowel choice, which rules out every consonant guess before you make one.
E fills the fourth box in one hundred fourteen of the four hundred forty four, twenty six percent, more than any other letter by a wide margin.
S closes one hundred forty one words, thirty two percent, with Y on fifty three. Confirm those two boxes and the page narrows fast.
LARGE or LOOSE. Both are common, both test the E fourth box and between them they cover the two largest vowel branches.
Yes. Every other word on this page takes a vowel or a Y in the second box, which makes those two worth remembering.
One hundred forty one, which is thirty two percent. Y follows on fifty three and E on forty three.