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Three words put V first and D third, and one of them is a word you use every day. The other two are not.
VIDEO is ordinary. VODKA is common enough to reach for. VODUN is a spelling of a religion's name that mostly appears in dictionaries. That is the complete list.
V is among the least used opening letters in English, and fixing D in the third box removes nearly everything that survives. What is left is three words, and nothing on the page can change that.
O takes the second box in two of the three and I takes the other. The fourth and fifth boxes differ in every word, so once you know the second letter you are usually done.
There is no distribution to read here and no branch to narrow. Check which of the three fits the letters you already have.
None of them repeats a letter, so a visible double means the answer is not on this page at all.
Yes, it runs V, O, D, K, A. The K in the fourth box is unusual and makes it easy to spot once you have any letter confirmed.
A spelling of the West African religion more commonly written as voodoo. Word game dictionaries carry it.
If your puzzle uses a wider dictionary than this page does, yes. This list is what the site holds for the pattern.