| 100% | BARQS | 5 | A&W rival mentioned in the Mary-Chapin Carpenter song "I Feel Lucky" |
| 40% | NAENAE | 6 | Dance mentioned in the 2015 song "Watch Me" |
| 37% | SOFREE | 6 | How "You Make Me Feel" in a Van Morrison song |
| 35% | LAYLA | 5 | Song with the line "Like a fool, I fell in love with you" |
| 35% | SHANIA | 6 | ___ Twain, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" country singer who made her breakthrough in the '90s |
| 34% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob ___, singer who covered the song "Take a Message to Mary" in 1970 |
| 34% | LAYLA | 5 | Clapton song with the lyric “Like a fool, I fell in love with you” |
| 33% | NOONE | 5 | Who "can get in the way of what I feel for you," in a 2007 #1 Alicia Keys hit |
| 33% | LAYLA | 5 | Eric Clapton song with the lyric "Like a fool, I fell in love with you" |
| 33% | DOE | 3 | Female animal mentioned in a song in "The Sound of Music" |
| 33% | AMARILLO | 8 | City mentioned in the song “Route 66” |
| 33% | SOUTHCENTRAL | 12 | Neighborhood mentioned in the song "California Love" |
| 33% | JOHNLEGEND | 10 | "All of Me" singer who wrote a song in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical": 2 wds. |
| 33% | EVER | 4 | "If you're ___ in a jam, here I am" (first line of the classic song "Friendship") |
| 32% | BANJO | 5 | Musical instrument mentioned in the song "Oh! Susanna" |
| 32% | STYX | 4 | River mentioned in the Hadestown song "Epic II" |
| 32% | SALT | 4 | Seasoning mentioned in the Jimmy Buffett song "Margaritaville" |
| 32% | DEER | 4 | Animal mentioned in the song "Do-Re-Mi" |
| 32% | AMORE | 5 | "When the moon hits your eye" feeling, in a Dean Martin song |
| 32% | OREOSHAKE | 9 | Drink mentioned in the Walker Hayes song "Fancy Like" |
| 32% | WAYTORUN | 8 | In the song, "Fa, a long, long __" |
| 31% | GLENNMILLER | 11 | Musician mentioned in the theme song to "All in the Family" |
| 31% | WYATTEARP | 9 | Frontiersman mentioned in the classic song "Western Movies" by the Olympics |
| 31% | RESEDA | 6 | Los Angeles suburb mentioned in the Tom Petty song "Free Fallin'" |
| 31% | MAN | 3 | "___! I Feel Like a Woman!" (Shania Twain song) |
| 31% | FROSTY | 6 | Snowman mentioned in a Gene Autry song |
| 31% | PEAR | 4 | Fruit mentioned in a long Christmas song |
| 31% | SINGIN | 6 | "___ in the [4 Down]" (What a glorious feeling!) |
| 31% | EARTH | 5 | "I Feel the ___ Move," song covered by Mandy Moore that features in her album "Coverage" |
| 31% | LYRICS | 6 | The words in a song |