| 100% | SELDOM | 6 | "I am just a poor boy though my story's __ told" |
| 59% | APOOR | 5 | "I am just ___ boy / Though my story's seldom told" (opening lines of Simon & Garfunkel's song "The Boxer") (2 wds.) |
| 42% | NEW | 3 | Pink Floyd "I am just a ___ boy" |
| 39% | BACKINTHEDAY | 12 | "When I was just a youngster . . ." |
| 38% | SAYYES | 6 | "You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess / It's a love story, baby, just ___ ... " (Taylor Swift lyric) |
| 36% | IHADAHUNCH | 10 | "That's what my intuition was telling me" |
| 34% | ANANG | 5 | Character who’s told “hear my words” in a They Might Be Giants song |
| 34% | ONCE | 4 | "___ I was seven years old my momma told me..." |
| 33% | ELABORATEDETAIL | 15 | A story might be told in it |
| 33% | APOOR | 5 | “I am just — boy ...” |
| 33% | ROSA | 4 | Parks whose story is told in Faith Ringgold’s book “If a Bus Could Talk” |
| 33% | NAME | 4 | "Spell My ___ with an S," sci-fi short story by Isaac Asimov that was adapted into a 2014 short film directed by Samuel Ali |
| 32% | GYM | 3 | Place that my dad once told me was a nickname for games and I believed him for years |
| 32% | EERILY | 6 | How a campfire story might be told |
| 32% | ELEANOR | 7 | "The Good Place" character who said, "Whenever anyone tells me a story about their life, I always imagine all the people as being super hot" |
| 32% | JACK | 4 | I am the little boy Horner who stuck his finger in a Christmas pie |
| 32% | JOURNAL | 7 | *"In 2024, I will ___ (pen down) my thoughts in a diary regularly!" |
| 32% | APOOR | 5 | “I am just ___ boy ...” (“The Boxer” lyrics) |
| 32% | IIRC | 4 | "As my memory tells me," in a text |
| 32% | WOE | 3 | "___ is me!" ("My life's a mess!") |
| 32% | DRUMMER | 7 | I am a "little boy" from a popular Christmas carol where I play an instrument |
| 31% | APAL | 4 | "Be ___ and just give me a hand here, will you?" |
| 31% | ORE | 3 | Mineral that has just been extracted from a mine |
| 31% | WENCESLAS | 9 | I am a "good" ruler from a popular Christmas carol who gives alms to the poor |
| 31% | MIND | 4 | "I was going to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my ___!" |
| 31% | OFA | 3 | "This is the story ___ boy and a girl...": 2 wds. |
| 31% | THX | 3 | "that was a gr8 favor u just did 4 me" |
| 31% | ARIANA | 6 | Santa Tell Me and God is a Woman singer, __ Grande |
| 31% | AGE | 3 | Is just a number |
| 30% | VENICE | 6 | I'm a city in Italy and my nickname is "The Floating City" |