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Eighty nine words place U second and L third, and the L is usually followed by another consonant.
BULBS, BULKS, CULTS, GULFS, HULKS, PULPS and SULKS all put a hard consonant straight after the L. That gives the page a short clipped sound that most vowel pairs do not produce.
RULES, MULTI, PULSE, RULED and TULIP are the most common. FULLY, BULBS, BULLY and BULKY all come up regularly.
L takes the fourth box in twenty one of the eighty nine, which puts a second L straight after the first. BULLS, CULLS, DULLS, FULLS, GULLS and HULLS all work that way, with BULLY, DULLY, FULLY and GULLY alongside them.
E takes fifteen and gives the softer half of the page, in RULES, BULGE, CULET and DULSE. Those two letters between them settle most of the fourth box.
S closes thirty three of the eighty nine, thirty seven percent, far ahead of Y on fourteen.
So the ending is the most valuable early test, and after that the fourth box. The opening letter spreads across nineteen options and rarely repays a guess.
TULIP tests the T, I and P, none of which the doubled L branch uses. RULES confirms the commonest ending but leaves the bulk of the page open.
An edible red seaweed eaten in Ireland, Scotland and Atlantic Canada. It is usually dried and eaten as a snack.
The small flat facet at the bottom of a cut gemstone. CULEX, a genus of mosquito, sits beside it and is unrelated.
HULLO is a variant of hello and HULLS are the bodies of ships or the outer coverings of seeds. A single closing letter divides them.