| 100% | HAD | 3 | "Best Thing I Never ___" (Beyonce song) |
| 92% | HAD | 3 | "Best Thing I Never ___" (song by Beyonce) |
| 77% | HAD | 3 | "Best Thing I Never ___" (Beyoncé Top 20 single) |
| 56% | BROWNSKINGIRL | 13 | “The best thing in the world,” per a 2019 Beyoncé song |
| 55% | ATE | 3 | "The Best Thing I Ever ___" (Food Network series) |
| 55% | ATE | 3 | "The Best Thing I Ever ___" (Food Network show) |
| 55% | ATE | 3 | "The Best Thing I Ever ___" (Cooking Channel show) |
| 55% | EVER | 4 | "The Best Thing I ___ Ate" (Cooking Channel show) |
| 55% | MCRAE | 5 | Tate ___, "All the Things I Never Said" singer |
| 50% | THING | 5 | "Best ___ I Never Had" (Beyoncé Top 20 hit) |
| 50% | THING | 5 | Beyoncé's "Best __ I Never Had" |
| 49% | ONTHEROADAGAIN | 14 | Willie Nelson song with the lyrics "Goin' places that I've never been / Seein' things that I may never see again" (4 wds.) |
| 49% | DIVA | 4 | Beyonce song with the lyric "Stop the track, let me state facts" |
| 48% | TELL | 4 | "___ Me Something Good" (Rufus & Chaka Khan song) |
| 48% | LOVEDROUGHT | 11 | Beyonce song with the lyric "You and me could make it rain now" |
| 48% | REAL | 4 | "Even Better Than the ___ Thing" (U2 song) |
| 47% | FUN | 3 | David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly ___ Thing I'll Never Do Again" |
| 47% | THING | 5 | Beyoncé's "Best __ I Never Had" |
| 47% | LESS | 4 | "The ___ I Know the Better" (Tame Impala song) |
| 47% | FOOLISH | 7 | Jazz song, These __ Things (Remind Me Of You) |
| 46% | EGO | 3 | Beyonce song with the lyric "I talk like this 'cause I can back it up" |
| 46% | HUMPH | 5 | "Well, I never!" |
| 46% | THENERVE | 8 | "Well, I never!" |
| 46% | WHATNERVE | 9 | "Well, I never!" |
| 46% | HOWDAREYOU | 10 | “Well, I never!” |
| 46% | MYWORD | 6 | "Well, I never!" |
| 46% | WHATNERVE | 9 | “Well, I never!” |
| 46% | SAL | 3 | "The best pal that I ever had," in song |
| 46% | SAL | 3 | "The best pal that I ever had" of song |
| 45% | AGAIN | 5 | "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do ___" (essay collection by David Foster Wallace) |