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944 five letter words start with P, and no branch takes more than a quarter of them.
A leads at about twenty two percent, O at sixteen, I at fourteen, E at twelve, R at eleven and U at ten. Six branches, all live.
PRICE, PRESS, PRINT and PRIOR sit on the R blend, PLACE, PLANS and PLANT on the L. Between them they hold a good share of the everyday words here.
PHONE and PHOTO both open with PH, where the two letters make an F sound. If you are working from how the word sounds rather than how it is spelled, you will place an F and rule this group out.
That is the single most common mistake on a P page, and it costs a whole turn when it happens.
With six branches this level, pick a first guess for what its other four boxes rule out rather than for the branch it commits to.
PH comes into English from Greek and carries an F sound with it. The spelling kept the Greek letters even though the pronunciation did not.
PLACE, marginally. Its A and E are commoner than the I in PRICE, and the L branch is not far behind the R branch in size.
PR and PL, in that order. They are the only consonant branches with enough everyday words to be worth a full turn.