[fellerts]

Well, staple utilities typically have short names, so sorting the results by name length might help:

    $ apropos count lines | awk '{print length($1), $0}' | sort -n | head
    2 gc (1)               - count graph components
    2 nl (1)               - number lines of files
    2 rg (1)               - recursively search the current directory for lines matching a pattern
    2 sa (8)               - summarizes accounting information
    2 wc (1)               - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
    3 box (3x)             - create curses borders, horizontal and vertical lines
    3 cvt (1)              - calculate VESA CVT mode lines
    3 gtf (1)              - calculate VESA GTF mode lines
    3 rev (1)              - reverse lines characterwise
    3 sum (1)              - checksum and count the blocks in a file

Side-note, there are a bunch of neat utilities here I didn't know about!