| 100% | JAUNDICED | 9 | Affected by a very yellow complexion |
| 47% | BARELY | 6 | By a very small margin |
| 47% | STEEPLY | 7 | By a very large amount |
| 46% | ASTHECROWFLIES | 14 | By a very direct route, idiomatically |
| 45% | SEESSTARS | 9 | Is affected by a sidewinder |
| 45% | TENPIN | 6 | One affected by a strike |
| 45% | SOREST | 6 | Most affected by a workout |
| 45% | SNORE | 5 | Be affected by a blocked airway |
| 45% | WEEPY | 5 | Visibly affected by a moving film |
| 45% | ONEINTEN | 8 | Proportion affected by a literal decimation |
| 45% | REEL | 4 | Be affected by a potent punch |
| 45% | UPONE | 5 | Winning by a very small margin |
| 45% | BYANOSE | 7 | Victory by a very narrow margin |
| 44% | VARICOSE | 8 | Affected by a condition of swollen blue leg veins |
| 44% | EYELID | 6 | Fold of skin affected by a stye |
| 44% | MICROSOFT | 9 | Company affected by a July 2024 outage |
| 43% | APHASIC | 7 | One whose speech is affected by a stroke |
| 43% | SMALLCRAFT | 10 | Kind of boat affected by a wind advisory |
| 43% | UPONE | 5 | Winning by a very small margin (2 wds.) |
| 42% | TIDAL | 5 | Affected by the moon, in a way |
| 41% | CENTER | 6 | Basketball position that's usually filled by a very tall person |
| 41% | ARCED | 5 | Was affected by gravity, in a way |
| 41% | SUNNY | 5 | Weather forecast symbolized by a yellow circle |
| 41% | PALE | 4 | Having a very light complexion |
| 40% | SOLARP | 6 | *Nerve center in the abdomen that's strongly affected by a punch |
| 40% | GROANED | 7 | Was affected by too heavy a weight, say |
| 40% | TOUCHED | 7 | Emotionally affected by something, in a good way |
| 36% | PIKACHU | 7 | Yellow "detective" voiced by Ryan Reynolds in a 2019 Pokémon film |
| 36% | BUMBLEBEE | 9 | Yellow Volkswagen Beetle befriended by Charlie Watson in a "Transformers" film |
| 36% | RILL | 4 | Very shallow erosion channel cut into a hill by flowing water |