| 100% | UHOH | 4 | "I don't like the sound of that" (Hyph.) |
| 92% | UHOH | 4 | "I don't like the sound of that" |
| 71% | OOH | 3 | "I like the sound of that!" |
| 62% | JIB | 3 | "I don't like the cut of your ___" |
| 61% | NEO | 3 | "The Matrix" hero who said, "I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life" |
| 61% | JIB | 3 | "I don't like the cut of her ___" (behavior) |
| 57% | JIB | 3 | “I don’t like the cut of her ___” |
| 55% | EAVE | 4 | The part of a roof that sounds like eve |
| 54% | REEDY | 5 | Like the sound of oboes |
| 54% | REEDY | 5 | Like the sound of bagpipes |
| 54% | JANGLY | 6 | Like the sound of change |
| 54% | ATHILL | 6 | Diana —, author of 1967 novel Don't Look at Me Like That |
| 54% | YEW | 3 | Tree that sounds like one of the vowels |
| 54% | RESONANT | 8 | Like the sound of a gong |
| 54% | SHRILL | 6 | Like the sound of a siren |
| 54% | SHRILL | 6 | Like the sound of a teakettle |
| 54% | REEDY | 5 | Like the sound of an oboe |
| 54% | REEDY | 5 | Like the sound of a clarinet |
| 54% | BRASSY | 6 | Like the sound of a horn |
| 53% | VETO | 4 | Presidential action that sounds like one of the Corleones |
| 53% | EEK | 3 | Shriek that sounds like part of the word "shriek" |
| 53% | INSTEREO | 8 | Like the sound of surround sound, typically |
| 53% | EERIE | 5 | Like the sound of a creaky staircase |
| 53% | DEEP | 4 | Like the sound of a double bass |
| 53% | TINNY | 5 | Like the sound of a toy piano |
| 53% | ONEEYED | 7 | Like a cyclops or some of the Minions in "Despicable Me": Hyph. |
| 53% | ABIE | 4 | Name that sounds like two consecutive letters of the alphabet |
| 52% | TWANGY | 6 | Like the sound of a pedal steel guitar |
| 51% | OPIE | 4 | Man's name that sounds like two consecutive letters of the alphabet |
| 51% | ERE | 3 | Preposition that sounds like the name of a basic need |