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Only seven words place T second and H third, and one of them is far commoner than everything else on the page combined.
It is among the most frequent words in English, and nothing else on this page comes close. If a puzzle confirms T at two and H at three, this is where to start.
ETHER, ETHIC, ETHOS and ETHYL all descend from Greek roots, and ETHAL, an old name for cetyl alcohol, joins them. E takes five of the seven, more than any other letter.
It means the same thing and differs in the opening letter alone. Burns uses it constantly, which is why it survives in word lists at all.
R closes three of the seven and L closes two, with four letters appearing in the last box overall.
E fills the fourth box in three of the seven. Between OTHER, ETHER and ITHER, the ER ending alone covers a good share of the page.
An ethic is a principle governing conduct and an ethos is the character or spirit of a community. They share a root and are not interchangeable.
A chemical group derived from ethane, best known from ethyl alcohol. It is standard organic chemistry vocabulary.
Yes, from the mid nineteenth century onward. It also names the imagined medium that light was once thought to travel through.
Only if OTHER has already been ruled out. The two differ in one box and OTHER is vastly more likely.
An older name for cetyl alcohol, obtained from spermaceti. It has dropped out of chemical usage.