Looking at the pattern "__a_e", there are several possible 5-letter words like "shape", "shade", "shake", "shame", or "share". The letter "h" appears in many of these possibilities, especially in the second position. Since I have limited guesses left (only 2), I'm choosing "h" as it has a high probability of being in the word based on common English patterns where "h" often follows "s" or precedes vowels.