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One hundred fifty nine words start with ST, and only seven letters ever follow them.
O takes the third box in thirty nine of the one hundred fifty nine, twenty five percent, A in thirty three, E in twenty seven and I in twenty two. R and U take sixteen each and Y takes six.
Only seven letters appear there, remarkably few for a page of one hundred fifty nine. Every one is a vowel except R and Y.
STAND, STEAM, STORY, STUDY and STYLE are the entries most likely to be wanted, with STAGE, STONE, STEEL and STRIP behind them.
R takes the third box in sixteen words, giving STRAP, STRAW, STRIP and STRUT. Those run three consonants before reaching a vowel, which no other branch here does.
Because the vowel cannot arrive until the fourth box, the STR words have a different shape from the rest of the page.
N leads the fourth box overall on nineteen words, with R on seventeen.
E closes twenty five of the one hundred fifty nine, sixteen percent, with S on twenty one and K on fifteen.
The K ending is worth noting. STACK, STICK, STOCK, STEAK and STALK all take it, and few other pages carry that shape at all.
Both are common and they test different third letters. STAND also covers N in the fourth box, which more words here take than any other letter.
ST is already a cluster, so what follows has to be a vowel or one of the few consonants English allows there, which is R and Y.
Fifteen, which is nine percent. STACK, STICK, STOCK and STALK are the ones you would reach for.