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Twenty six words put V first and L third, and only vowels appear in the second box. VALUE and VALVE are the two you are most likely to want.
O takes the second box in nine words and A in seven. E and I take four each and U takes two. No consonant appears there across the whole twenty six.
The A branch is the useful one. VALUE, VALVE, VALID, VALET and VALOR all sit in it and all of them are ordinary words, a better hit rate than the O branch manages.
VOLTS is the only word in the O branch most people would produce. VOLES is reachable, and VOLAR, VOLED, VOLET, VOLTA, VOLTE, VOLTI and VOLVA are all dictionary entries.
So the largest branch by count is the weakest by usefulness. That inversion is worth remembering before you spend a guess chasing the bigger number.
Three words repeat a letter and VILLA, VILLI and VILLS carry a doubled L. VOLVA and VULVA repeat the V instead, which is rarer and harder to spot.
S closes five of the twenty six, more than any other letter, with R, E and A each taking four.
That leaves the last box genuinely open. With nine different letters closing the page, it is the wrong target for an early guess.
Both are common and they differ in two boxes. VALUE also tests U in the fourth box, which almost nothing else here takes.
Open grassland, usually spelled veld or veldt. Both VELDS and VELDT appear on this list.
English built several ordinary words on VAL and almost none on VOL. Count and usefulness do not line up on this page.