| 100% | SHUN | 4 | Avoid something out of caution |
| 57% | INCONGRUITY | 11 | Something out of place |
| 54% | DISLOCATION | 11 | Having something out of place |
| 53% | POD | 3 | Take something out of its shell |
| 53% | UPROOT | 6 | Pull something out of the soil |
| 53% | DANGLES | 7 | Swings something out of a window |
| 53% | RECYCLES | 8 | Makes something out of waste materials |
| 52% | ORWELLIAN | 9 | Author adjective; like something out of 1984 |
| 52% | WORMED | 6 | __ out of: slyly avoided |
| 50% | USES | 4 | Gets utility out of something |
| 50% | USES | 4 | Gets work out of something |
| 50% | MOLT | 4 | Grow out of something, say |
| 50% | JINXIT | 6 | Talk yourself out of something? |
| 49% | LOSESLEEP | 9 | What not to do over something out of your control |
| 49% | LIELOW | 6 | Keep out of sight, avoid detection |
| 49% | BEGOFF | 6 | Try to get out of something |
| 49% | HOLLOWING | 9 | Taking the core out of something |
| 49% | INTO | 4 | Enter within, not out of something |
| 49% | SQUASHING | 9 | Pressing the air out of something |
| 49% | GUT | 3 | Tear the middle out of something |
| 49% | ART | 3 | "Making something out of nothing and selling it," per Frank Zappa |
| 48% | RENDER | 6 | To cook the fat out of something |
| 48% | RUT | 3 | Break out of a ___ (do something different) |
| 46% | PULLA | 5 | "___ rabbit out of a hat" (do something unexpected): 2 wds. |
| 46% | PULLA | 5 | ___ rabbit out of the hat (do something unexpected): 2 wds. |
| 45% | WEASEL | 6 | ___ out of, phrase you may use when you avoid a problem slyly |
| 45% | HIDE | 4 | Keep out of sight ... and something you'd do to 5d |
| 44% | BOLT | 4 | Something sticking out of Frankenstein's neck |
| 44% | MOST | 4 | The biggest quantity of something shared out |
| 44% | LOVE | 4 | Something often fallen out of |