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Only seven words hold T second and Y third, and most of them come from one Greek root.
All three descend from the Greek stylos, a pillar or a pointed writing tool. A stylus is the direct descendant, STYLI is its plural, and STYLO is a shortened form of stylograph.
STYLE itself came the same way, through the idea of a manner of writing. Several entries on a page of seven trace back to one word for a pointed stick.
STYES are inflamed swellings on the eyelid and STYED is the related verb form. ETYMA is the plural of etymon, the original form a word descends from.
STYMY, meaning to obstruct, is the last entry and the only one with no classical pedigree. It came from golf, where a stymie was a ball blocking another player's line.
S opens six of the seven and E takes the last one. L fills the fourth box in three, which is the STYL family showing through the data.
Nearly always. It is by a wide margin the commonest word here and the only one most readers use daily.
The plural of etymon, the earliest recoverable form of a word. It is a term from historical linguistics.
STYE is the singular and STYES the plural, but only the plural has five letters, so only STYES fits this pattern.
From golf, where a stymie was an opponent's ball lying between yours and the hole. The rule was abolished but the verb survived.