| 100% | DMINOR | 6 | 59-Down that captures the sound of “melancholy womanliness,” per the composer Christian Schubart |
| 34% | AMPS | 4 | Devices that increase the sound of bands |
| 33% | WIN | 3 | Premiering in 2025! "___ or Lose," Pixar's animated TV series that captures the ups and downs of a middle school softball team |
| 32% | OOH | 3 | "I like the sound of that!" |
| 32% | FROMHERETOMATERNITY | 19 | Movie that captures the arc of conception through the delivery room? |
| 32% | HORN | 4 | Sound that signifies the end of a basketball game |
| 32% | DECIBELS | 8 | Units that measure the loudness of sound |
| 31% | UHOH | 4 | "I don't like the sound of that" |
| 31% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that makes the sound of the duck in "Peter and the Wolf" |
| 31% | OPENINGBELL | 11 | Sound that signals the start of trading, on a stock exchange |
| 31% | UHOH | 4 | "I don't like the sound of that" (Hyph.) |
| 31% | GEE | 3 | Sound of the letter that follows "eff" |
| 31% | TEE | 3 | Sound of the letter that follows "S" |
| 31% | ALPS | 4 | The hills that are alive in "The Sound of Music" |
| 30% | AMP | 3 | Box that the sound of an electric guitar comes through |
| 30% | SIREN | 5 | Sound that means "Get out of the way!" |
| 30% | ANVIL | 5 | "___ Chorus" (section of the Verdi opera "Il trovatore" that mimics the sounds of blacksmiths' tools) |
| 30% | SADDLE | 6 | "Back in the ___," 1976 song by Aerosmith that features the sounds of a galloping horse |
| 30% | EAVE | 4 | The part of a roof that sounds like eve |
| 30% | ATROCIOUS | 9 | Like the sound of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," per the song of the same name |
| 30% | CLATTER | 7 | Sound of something hard falling down the stairs, e.g. |
| 30% | SYLLABLES | 9 | The units of sound that words are broken up into |
| 30% | SOLONG | 6 | Goodbye or farewell, per The Sound of Music |
| 29% | AMP | 3 | Piece of equipment that boosts the band's sound |
| 29% | PURR | 4 | Contented sound of a cat that got the cream |
| 29% | TACOMA | 6 | City that’s home to the University of Puget Sound |
| 29% | PINESAP | 7 | Sticky stuff that drips down the side of a cone? |
| 29% | ERE | 3 | Preposition that sounds like the name of a basic need |
| 29% | THY | 3 | Pronoun that sounds like the name of a body part |
| 29% | ENO | 3 | Composer of the Windows 95 start-up sound |