| 100% | TALE | 4 | A narrative or a story |
| 64% | WRITING | 7 | Scribbling a note or story |
| 61% | CONTE | 5 | A short narrative or tale |
| 61% | TAGLINE | 7 | The point of a joke or humorous story |
| 60% | FAIRYTALE | 9 | A mythological, magical or folklore story |
| 60% | NARRATIVE | 9 | A story; spoken or written account |
| 60% | TABLEAU | 7 | Painting or photograph of a scene telling a story |
| 59% | NARRATES | 8 | Tells or explains a story |
| 59% | TELLS | 5 | Shares or narrates a story |
| 59% | NARRATE | 7 | Tell or relate a story |
| 58% | BALLAD | 6 | A poem or narrative commonly set to music |
| 58% | STRUCTURE | 9 | Arrangement of a building or narrative |
| 58% | YARN | 4 | A long story or a knitter's ball |
| 58% | SCENES | 6 | Building blocks of a narrative story |
| 58% | SAGA | 4 | Lengthy story, or a multigenerational story |
| 58% | MORAL | 5 | Significance of a story or event |
| 57% | NARRATIVE | 9 | A story; a written or spoken account of events |
| 57% | TALE | 4 | A story or piece of folklore (rhymes with "Pale") |
| 57% | PLOT | 4 | Story component that may have a twist or two |
| 57% | SEQUEL | 6 | A book or film that continues an earlier story |
| 57% | DEPICTS | 7 | Represents, as in a story or painting |
| 57% | YARN | 4 | Long story or a knitter's ball |
| 57% | THEME | 5 | Unifying idea in a story or essay |
| 56% | PLOTTING | 8 | Forming plans or a writer constructing a story |
| 56% | NARRATION | 9 | Telling of a story or a voice track |
| 56% | NARRATE | 7 | To verbally tell a story or give commentary |
| 55% | MORAL | 5 | Conclusion of a story, or the learning from that |
| 55% | FOLKTALE | 8 | Lore or legend, a story passed on through speech |
| 55% | WHODUNNIT | 9 | Popular name for a murder mystery or crime story |
| 54% | FABRICATE | 9 | Make up or invent a story to evade the truth |