| 100% | BANDAID | 7 | Adhesive strip placed over a scratch: Hyph. |
| 51% | BANDAIDS | 8 | Adhesive strips to put over cuts: Hyph. |
| 44% | BANDAID | 7 | Medicine cabinet item that might be placed over a cut: Hyph. |
| 42% | MANTEL | 6 | Place over a fire? |
| 40% | NERFHOOP | 8 | Toy placed over a door |
| 40% | UMLAUT | 6 | Two dots placed over a vowel |
| 40% | TILDE | 5 | Grapheme placed over a Spanish n |
| 38% | LONGTERM | 8 | Not taking place over a short period of time |
| 37% | AWNING | 6 | Roof-like cover over a place |
| 37% | COVER | 5 | Place a blanket over |
| 37% | CIRCUMFLEX | 10 | Mark placed over a vowel such as the o in French |
| 36% | GUARDED | 7 | Kept watch over a person or place |
| 36% | NOSE | 4 | Place for a pore strip |
| 35% | DALLOWAY | 8 | "Mrs. ___," 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf whose plot takes place over a single day |
| 35% | TAPE | 4 | Adhesive strip that you may use to "stick" posters onto a wall |
| 34% | WATERSKI | 8 | Glide over a lake while pulled by a boat: Hyph. |
| 34% | SEIZE | 5 | "___ the Day," 1956 novel by Saul Bellow whose plot takes place over a single day |
| 34% | TILDE | 5 | Mark placed over the letter n indicating a palatal nasal consonant |
| 33% | UMLAUT | 6 | Mark placed over a vowel in German such as the letter u in the name Jürgen |
| 33% | CDROM | 5 | Storage place in a PC, briefly: Hyph. |
| 33% | ONRAMPS | 7 | Places to enter a highway: Hyph. |
| 33% | ANGEL | 5 | Guardian ___ (spirit that is believed to watch over a person or place) |
| 33% | VOLCANO | 7 | "Under the ___," 1947 novel by Malcolm Lowry whose final eleven chapters take place over a single day |
| 33% | ROADSIDE | 8 | Place to pull over a car |
| 33% | DRAPING | 7 | Placing fabric loosely over a mannequin |
| 32% | TILDE | 5 | Mark placed over the letter ‘n’ in ‘senor’ indicating a palatal nasal consonant |
| 32% | RESTSTOP | 8 | Place to pull over during a long road trip: 2 wds. |
| 32% | DDAY | 4 | Date on which a historical event takes place: Hyph. |
| 32% | ONSITE | 6 | In a particular place, like some job training: Hyph. |
| 32% | TEAHOUSE | 8 | Place to chat over a hot drink |