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Only thirteen words hold W second and O third, and three of them are forms of the same verb.
SWORE and SWORN really are the past forms of swear. SWORD is not related to either of them, despite sharing four letters and arriving in the same shape.
That is the trap on this page. Two of the three belong together and the third only looks as though it does, so reasoning from the pattern will mislead you.
SWORD, SWORN, AWOKE, SWORE and SWOOP are the entries in general use, with SWOON close behind. The rest are dialect or abbreviations.
S takes ten of the thirteen and A takes three. Nothing else appears in the first box, so it is a straight two way choice.
R takes the fourth box in four of the thirteen, more than any other letter, and that is the SWOR group showing through.
S and N each close four of the thirteen. Between the plurals and the past participles, the last box is largely accounted for.
It was pronounced in Old English and the sound dropped away while the spelling stayed. The same happened in answer and two.
It is the plural of AWOL, used as a noun for someone absent without leave. Word lists treat it as an ordinary entry.
An old contracted spelling of swollen, used in verse to fit a metre. You will only meet it in poetry.
At work or in action, an archaic adverb built like afoot and afire. Shakespeare uses it.
To swoop is to descend rapidly and to swoon is to faint. They part company at the final letter.