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Just two words hold U second and V third, and both arrived from French.
A DUVET is a quilt filled with down and a CUVEE is a particular blend or batch of wine. One belongs in a bedroom and the other on a wine label, and they share only their route into English.
E fills it in two of the two, which is both entries. The opening letter and the final letter are the only places where the two words differ at all.
CUVEE ends on a doubled E, so one of the two carries a repeat. DUVET closes on a T instead, and that single letter is what separates them.
DUVET, comfortably. It is an everyday word in British English, while CUVEE stays inside wine writing.
Roughly koo VAY, following the French. Wine labels often print it with an accent on the first E.
It marks a specific blend or batch, often the producer's better one. The term has no legal definition, so it promises less than it sounds like.
V rarely sits in the third box of an English word at all, and pairing it with U in front narrows things further. What survives came in from French.
None in this list. The pattern is more productive in longer words built on uvula.