| 100% | MERRILY | 7 | "Row, row, row your boat" word sung four times before "Life is but a dream" |
| 91% | MERRILY | 7 | Word repeated four times before "Life is but a dream," in "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" |
| 53% | LIFE | 4 | "... ___ is but a dream" ("Row Row Row Your Boat" lyrics) |
| 50% | NOEL | 4 | Word sung four times before "Born is the King of Israel" |
| 44% | ROW | 3 | Word sung three times before "your boat" |
| 43% | ISTHISLOVE | 10 | 1978 Bob Marley hit whose title words are sung four times before "... that I'm feelin'" |
| 43% | MERRILY | 7 | "__, __, __, __, life is but a dream" |
| 37% | BOOM | 4 | Word repeated four times before “I want you in my room,” in a Vengaboys song |
| 32% | YOHO | 4 | Words sung twice before "A pirate's life for me" |
| 32% | RANG | 4 | The bell ___ four times before it was all over. |
| 31% | BUT | 3 | Life is ___ a dream |
| 31% | MISTAKE | 7 | Word repeated four times in a James Figurine album |
| 31% | REAL | 4 | Word before time or life |
| 31% | REAL | 4 | Word before life or time |
| 31% | MAD | 3 | Word repeated four times in a Spencer Tracy movie title |
| 30% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" |
| 30% | POE | 3 | He wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" |
| 30% | SEE | 3 | 'All that we ___ or seem is but a dream within a dream': Poe |
| 30% | MAD | 3 | Word repeated four times in a 1963 Spencer Tracy film title |
| 30% | IDO | 3 | Words that will end a single life |
| 30% | POE | 3 | "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" writer |
| 30% | MERRILY | 7 | Word repeated once more than “row,” in “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” |
| 30% | BAA | 3 | Word sung twice before "black sheep" in a nursery rhyme |
| 30% | ROOT | 4 | Word sung three times before "for the home team" in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" |
| 30% | DOORWAY | 7 | Portal represented 20 times in this puzzle that lets you in and out of a confined space (Note: These special letters, reading left to right, row by row, will produce an apt four-word phrase) |
| 29% | PRIME | 5 | The best years of your life, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 29% | LETITSNOW | 9 | Phrase sung three times in a row in a holiday song |
| 29% | ONCE | 4 | Word before "upon a time" |
| 29% | HEREGOES | 8 | Words before a trying time? |
| 29% | BYE | 3 | Title word sung 52 times in a 2000 hit by 'N Sync |