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One hundred fifty six words hold U second and R third, and the R changes the vowel in front of it.
BURN, TURN and HURT do not sound like BUN, TUN and HUT. The R pulls the U towards a sound of its own, which is why this pair behaves differently from other vowel and consonant combinations.
RURAL, TURNS, NURSE, CURVE and PURSE are the most common. BURNS, SURGE, BURST, TURBO and CURLS all come up regularly.
That is a solid core for a group of one hundred fifty six, though the tail is long. Much of the page is dialect, technical or borrowed vocabulary.
BURRO, BURRS, BURRY, CURRY, FURRY, HURRY and PURRS all repeat the R. Twenty of the one hundred fifty six carry a repeated letter, and this shape supplies most of them.
S takes fifty of the one hundred fifty six, well ahead of Y on twenty four. Ruling out a plural is the most efficient single move on the page.
B and C each open twenty two of the one hundred fifty six, but twenty one letters appear in that box. The opening letter is rarely worth a guess here.
TURNS tests the T, N and S in busy positions. NURSE repeats the extra vowel and covers less of what the page actually uses.
A steel tool for engraving on metal or wood, used in printmaking.
A curie is a unit of radioactivity named after the physicists, and a curio is a small unusual object. The last letter is the whole difference.
The unemployment office, in Scottish and Irish informal speech, from a pronunciation of bureau.