| 100% | FROBISHER | 9 | __ Bay, the former name of Nunavut's capital |
| 66% | RANGOON | 7 | Former name of Myanmar's largest city, capital of the Yangon region |
| 65% | EDO | 3 | Former name of Tokyo, the Japanese capital |
| 61% | MADRAS | 6 | Former name of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India |
| 60% | AGANA | 5 | Former name of Hagatna, capital of the Pacific island of Guam |
| 60% | PEKING | 6 | Former romanisation of the name of China's capital |
| 59% | EDO | 3 | Former name of Japan's capital |
| 59% | ULANBATOR | 9 | Former name of Mongolia's capital* |
| 59% | ASTANA | 6 | Former name of Kazakhstan's capital |
| 58% | GODTHAAB | 8 | Former name of Greenland's capital city Nuuk |
| 57% | UMTATA | 6 | Former name of Mthatha, city in Eastern Cape, South Africa, that was capital of the Transkei Bantustan |
| 57% | SONICS | 6 | Former name of the NBA's Thunder, informally |
| 54% | SANDWICH | 8 | __ Islands, the former name of Hawaii |
| 54% | PAKISTAN | 8 | East __, the former name of Bangladesh |
| 53% | ZAIRE | 5 | Former name of the Congo |
| 53% | NEGATRON | 8 | Former name of the electron |
| 52% | TITOGRAD | 8 | Former name of Montenegro capital Podgorica |
| 52% | NYC | 3 | Former capital of the U.S. |
| 52% | AVEO | 4 | Former name of the Chevrolet Sonic |
| 52% | KIROV | 5 | Former name of the Mariinsky Ballet |
| 52% | BURMA | 5 | Former name of the nation Myanmar |
| 52% | PIERRETRUDEAU | 13 | Former prime minister of Canada whose first name is the capital of South Dakota: 2 wds. |
| 52% | MHO | 3 | Former name of the physics unit siemens |
| 52% | NEHI | 4 | Former name of the Royal Crown Company |
| 52% | ELDERHOSTEL | 11 | Former name of the Road Scholar program * |
| 51% | USUMBURA | 8 | Former name of Bujumbura, capital of Burundi |
| 51% | SALISBURY | 9 | Former name of Harare, capital of Zimbabwe |
| 51% | HEIMLICH | 8 | Former name of the abdominal thrust for choking |
| 51% | BURMA | 5 | Former name of the country now called Myanmar |
| 51% | SPICEISLANDS | 12 | Former name of the Maluku Islands in Indonesia |