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W at two and F at three gives one word, and unusually for a pattern this narrow it is a word everybody uses.
Most single entry patterns on this site end on something archaic, technical or regional. This one ends on AWFUL, which is about as ordinary as English gets.
AWFUL began as awe full, meaning full of awe and worthy of reverence. An awful sight was a majestic one, and the word was a compliment.
It slid across the centuries into simple disapproval, and now nobody hears the awe in it at all. Awesome went the other way and kept the admiration, which leaves the two words as mirror images of each other.
Confirming W in the second box and F in the third finishes the puzzle outright. Nothing remains to narrow.
At five letters, yes. Nothing else in this list places W second and F third.
Words for powerful feelings often drift towards the negative. Terrible, dreadful and horrible all began as descriptions of awe or fear and ended as ordinary complaints.
It is the adverb from the same word and it kept the intensifying sense, as in awfully kind. That use preserves a trace of the original meaning.
It is a good one to land on and a poor one to chase. You would rarely reach it by reasoning, but if you do the answer is immediate.
It does not. Zero of the one carry a doubled letter.