| 100% | RULE | 4 | "Diagonal words are not allowed" is one in Scrabble |
| 50% | GPA | 3 | 1.0 is not a good one, in brief |
| 50% | TILES | 5 | There are two blank ones in Scrabble |
| 49% | QBS | 3 | Ones trying not to be sacked, in brief |
| 49% | LOSER | 5 | One not allowed in the winners' circle |
| 48% | ADAPT | 5 | Not be stuck in one's ways |
| 48% | RULE | 4 | "No diagonal words," in Scrabble |
| 48% | ROAD | 4 | One was not taken, in a Frost poem |
| 47% | SHOTCLOCK | 9 | One is used in basketball but not in hockey |
| 47% | PLAYED | 6 | "___ one's turn in scrabble" (made a word) |
| 47% | RULE | 4 | "Players may not loan money to other players" is one in Monopoly |
| 47% | IAMB | 4 | One of three in "To be or not to be" |
| 46% | NOBLER | 6 | Word in Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy |
| 44% | TABOO | 5 | Guessing game in which you're not allowed to say certain words |
| 42% | BIRD | 4 | One word in the 10 longest answers, if one letter is changed |
| 42% | TEN | 3 | Point value for "J" in Words With Friends (but not Scrabble) |
| 42% | RALPH | 5 | Kid on "The Simpsons" who said, "This is my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end" |
| 41% | DOG | 3 | President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these |
| 41% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 41% | MAYNT | 5 | Is not allowed to, for short |
| 40% | IVEGOTTHIS | 10 | Reassurance from one who might not, in fact, be on top of things |
| 40% | PERISCOPE | 9 | Tubular optical device allowing a viewer to see objects which are not directly in the line of sight |
| 40% | VOWEL | 5 | "W" is one in Welsh |
| 40% | MONISM | 6 | All is one in theology |
| 40% | MAYOR | 5 | Cleveland was one in Buffalo |
| 40% | ZYZZYVA | 7 | Tropical insect whose name is the last word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary |
| 39% | ARE | 3 | Word whose first letter is dropped in contractions |
| 39% | DENIAL | 6 | "___ is not just a river in Egypt" |
| 39% | CHINASHOP | 9 | Market not to be bullish in? |
| 39% | SUES | 4 | Not to be trusted, in brief |