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168 five letter words start with LA, and four different third letters sit within a point of each other at the top.
R leads at about eleven percent, with M, N and T all at ten. C and I take six each.
LARGE, LATER, LABEL, LABOR and LASER are the most common entries, and they spread across five third letters.
LAYER, LAKES, LANDS and LAUGH follow them, which makes this a group with more usable vocabulary than most of this size.
With the top four letters this level, a guess aimed at any one of them rules out about a tenth of the group and no more.
Better to pick a word whose last two boxes test common endings, since that is where the real narrowing happens here.
ER and ES account for a large share of those endings, which is why LATER and LAKES are more useful than their frequency suggests.
LATER is the most useful opener. Its T, E and R cover three of the busiest letters in the group and none of them repeats.
LARGE, marginally. The R in the third box is the single commonest option there, and its G and E test different ground from LASER.
Not really. Its GH ending appears almost nowhere else in the group, which makes it a poor opener but a reasonable late guess.
Enough to matter, particularly on the R and U branches. Treat the count as generous rather than as a list of playable options.