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Five five letter words start with NG, and every one of them is a borrowed word rather than English vocabulary.
A and O take about forty percent of the third box each, with W accounting for the last entry. Five words in total.
NGAIO is a New Zealand tree, NGOMA a drum used across parts of Africa, NGAPI a Burmese fish paste and NGWEE a Zambian coin.
English does not begin words with NG at all, so everything here has arrived from another language with its spelling intact.
If an NG opening genuinely fits your tiles, check the positions again before guessing, because a puzzle drawing on ordinary vocabulary is unlikely to use any of these.
More often than not an NG in the first two boxes means one of the letters belongs somewhere else in the word.
The NG sound only occurs at the end of a syllable in English. Languages that allow it at the start, such as Maori and Swahili, supply every word here.
It is the only one with any real presence in English writing, mostly through the New Zealand tree and the writer named after it.
Only one drawing on a very wide word list. A puzzle built on ordinary vocabulary would not include any of the five.