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Forty three words hold U second and I third, and this is where Q spends most of its time.
Q takes eighteen of the forty three, well ahead of G on seven. Because Q is almost always followed by U in English, a pattern with U in the second box is exactly where it lands.
QUICK, QUIET, QUILT, QUIRE, QUIRK, QUITE and QUITS are all ordinary English, and QUIDS, QUIFF, QUILL, QUINT and QUIPS fill out the rest.
So confirming a Q at the front narrows the page but leaves a wide field. That is the reverse of most pages, where the opening letter is the hard part.
GUIDE, GUILD, GUILE, GUILT and GUISE form the G family, and BUILD, BUILT, SUITE, SUITS and JUICE cover most of what remains.
GUILT and GUILE are worth separating carefully. One is the feeling of having done wrong and the other is cunning, and the final box is all that divides them.
T closes ten of the forty three and S closes nine, with E on seven. Those three carry most of the endings between them.
GUIDE settles whether the word is in the Q branch, which is the biggest question on this page. QUICK confirms it only if you are right.
A device of knotted cords used by the Inca to record numbers and information. QUIPO is a variant spelling and both appear here.
The dried sweat of sheep, found in raw wool. It is a term from the wool trade.
English inherited the QU spelling from Latin through French, and later borrowings kept it. The few exceptions came from Arabic and Chinese.