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Sixty nine words start with LE, and almost a third of them run LEA.
A takes the third box in twenty of the sixty nine, twenty nine percent, which is far ahead of E, G and N on six each.
So the first question here is whether the third letter is A. Answer it and the page splits roughly one to two, which is more than most third box guesses achieve.
LEARN, LEAST, LEAVE, LEASE and LEACH are all ordinary words, and LEADS, LEAKS, LEANS and LEAPS add the plural forms. It is the densest branch on the page by a wide margin.
LEMON, LEGAL, LEVEL, LEDGE and LEVER are the useful entries elsewhere, spread thinly across sixteen different third letters. None of those branches holds more than a handful.
S closes twenty of the sixty nine, twenty nine percent, with Y on ten and E on nine. Ten words repeat a letter, mostly the doubled E of LEECH and LEEKS.
It is the single best bet at twenty nine percent, though that still leaves most of the page. LEMON and LEGAL show the other branches are live.
Both are common and they differ in three boxes. LEARN tests N at the end, which fewer entries here take.
A flowering tree. It is one of the borrowed entries that fills the count without being guessable.