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Four hundred seventy seven words begin with R, and E takes the second box in almost a third of them.
E follows the R in one hundred fifty two words, thirty two percent, far ahead of A on one hundred six and O on ninety.
Only seven letters appear in that box at all, and apart from a small H branch they are all vowels.
Much of the E branch is the RE prefix on a short stem. REACT, REPAY, REFER, RESET and REMIX all work that way, none related to the others beyond those two letters.
So landing in the E branch narrows less than its size suggests. It is the largest branch and the least coherent.
RIGHT, ROUND, RAISE, RURAL and ROYAL come from other vowels and share almost nothing with each other.
Guessing across them covers the page faster than two words from the RE branch would, which is the opposite of what the counts suggest.
E fills the fourth box in one hundred thirty one of the four hundred seventy seven and S closes one hundred twenty one, twenty five percent.
RIGHT touches neither, which makes it a good partner to a word like REACH rather than a replacement for it.
It is the best single guess at thirty two percent, but that still leaves most of the page. A and O together take one hundred ninety six.
It is a prefix, not a family. The words inside share only the first two letters, so confirming them tells you little about the rest.
Sixty four, which is thirteen percent. ROUGH shapes and doubled L endings account for most.