| 100% | IDLENESS | 8 | ''The mother of corruption,'' according to Montaigne |
| 71% | IGRAINE | 7 | The mother of King Arthur, according to legend |
| 69% | ADITI | 5 | Mother of the gods, according to Vedas |
| 68% | IDLENESS | 8 | "The mother of corruption": Montaigne |
| 62% | EVE | 3 | "The mother of all living," according to Genesis |
| 56% | ROSALEEPARKS | 12 | Mother of the Freedom Movement, to friends |
| 55% | ORPHEUS | 7 | The father of songs, according to Pindar |
| 54% | VARIETY | 7 | The spice of life, according to a saying |
| 54% | IRE | 3 | According to Chaucer the root of this sin is pride |
| 53% | ARP | 3 | "Constellation According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 53% | FAIREST | 7 | Like Aphrodite, according to the Judgment of Paris |
| 51% | ARP | 3 | "Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 50% | CUSH | 4 | Eldest son of Ham according to the Bible |
| 50% | NOOL | 4 | According to the Sour Kangaroo, Horton was "the biggest blame fool in the jungle of ___" |
| 50% | SLEEP | 5 | According to Nas in "N.Y. State of Mind" this is the cousin of death |
| 50% | CATS | 4 | What Grizabella and Skimbleshanks are, according to the title of a Broadway musical |
| 49% | ABSALOM | 7 | Third son of David according to the Hebrew Bible |
| 49% | TAO | 3 | Way of life, according to the Chinese |
| 49% | COMEBACK | 8 | What Valerie Cherish made, according to the title of a 2005-2014 TV series |
| 48% | RIOT | 4 | "The language of the unheard," according to MLK |
| 48% | ALL | 3 | Mother of ___, descriptive phrase used to refer to something that is the most epic of its kind |
| 48% | ISRAEL | 6 | Country that, according to its tourist bureau, has the highest number of museums per capita |
| 48% | FANG | 4 | Rubeus Hagrid's boarhound - "a bloody coward" according to Hagrid - of the Harry Potter series |
| 48% | URBANAREAS | 10 | Definition, according to the US Census Bureau, of Raleigh, NC, Tucson, AZ and Dayton, OH |
| 48% | SONIA | 5 | Sotomayor who said, "You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true" |
| 48% | NECESSITY | 9 | The mother of invention |
| 47% | AORTA | 5 | The mother of all arteries |
| 47% | AUNT | 4 | The mother of your cousins |
| 47% | OYSTER | 6 | The world, according to Pistol, in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| 47% | TIDALFLOW | 9 | To and fro motion of seas according to the moon |