| 100% | ARAT | 4 | ''__ in shirt-sleeves'' (Thomas Wolfe's term for a yes-man) |
| 48% | TACO | 4 | Slang term for a Frisbee that's been bent in half |
| 47% | ATLANTA | 7 | Setting for Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" |
| 47% | REPO | 4 | Another term for a repurchase agreement (or 1980's cult film "___ Man") |
| 47% | STALEMATE | 9 | Term for a draw in chess |
| 46% | SODA | 4 | Generic term for a carbonated beverage, in certain parts of the U.S. |
| 46% | POP | 3 | Generic term for a carbonated beverage, in certain parts of the U.S. |
| 46% | ADOG | 4 | "Jeff is ___ " informal term for a man |
| 46% | EYE | 3 | Term for a hole in Swiss cheese |
| 46% | UNPERSON | 8 | Term for a censored dissident in "1984" |
| 45% | MINER | 5 | Term for a worker in the cryptocurrency business |
| 45% | PEARL | 5 | Term for a tapioca ball in boba tea |
| 45% | TEE | 3 | Casual term for a casual shirt |
| 45% | JOE | 3 | Slangy term for coffee that's also a man's name |
| 45% | BROADWAY | 8 | Term for a nonsuited ace high straight in poker |
| 45% | GUYLINER | 8 | Slang term for a cosmetic for men |
| 45% | CAUTION | 7 | Another term for a booking in football |
| 45% | PIVOT | 5 | Another term for a center, in basketball |
| 44% | DIVA | 4 | Term for a female superstar in opera or pop music |
| 44% | ASCENDANT | 9 | Another term for a rising sign, in astrology |
| 44% | ADHOMINEM | 9 | Latin term for a personal attack in a debate |
| 44% | PINT | 4 | Common term for a glass of beer in England |
| 44% | POLONECK | 8 | Another term for a turtleneck, popular in the UK |
| 43% | INFLATION | 9 | Economic term for a decline in the value of money |
| 43% | CAROM | 5 | American term for a cannon in the game of pool |
| 43% | BLOND | 5 | Term for light-colored hair on a man |
| 43% | SIR | 3 | Title for a man granted in the U.K. but not in the U.S. |
| 43% | SNIGLET | 7 | Term for a word that isn't in the dictionary but should be |
| 42% | ELEGY | 5 | Literary term for a poem written in serious reflection or lament |
| 42% | SAHIB | 5 | Polite address for a man in India |