| 100% | FEAT | 4 | Breaking a world record, e.g. |
| 79% | FEAT | 4 | Setting a world record, e.g. |
| 57% | FREEDIVE | 8 | Vencl broke this world record in a lake in 2023 |
| 56% | OMEN | 4 | Breaking a comb, in Japan, e.g. |
| 53% | OLDIE | 5 | E.g. a 1950s record |
| 52% | FEAT | 4 | Setting a world record, say |
| 50% | RPM | 3 | 33 1/3, e.g., for a record: Abbr. |
| 50% | ONLY | 4 | "Exclusive" word for a World Record entry |
| 49% | HIATUS | 6 | Pause, e.g. a mid-season break in a TV series |
| 48% | USAINBOLT | 9 | Jamaican world record breaking sprinter |
| 47% | IDIOM | 5 | "Break a leg," e.g. |
| 47% | SWEEP | 5 | Win the first four games in a World Series, e.g. |
| 46% | IRONIC | 6 | Like a broker going broke, e.g. |
| 46% | FINEART | 7 | Make Garfunkel pay for breaking a recording contract? |
| 45% | NALA | 4 | Guinness World Record-holding cat with a serious following |
| 44% | STRING | 6 | E, B, G, D, A or E |
| 44% | ELO | 3 | A New World Record grp. |
| 44% | MUSICNOTES | 10 | A B C D E F G |
| 44% | SKIPS | 5 | Sounds like a broken record |
| 44% | SKIP | 4 | Sound like a broken record |
| 44% | TIE | 3 | Almost break, as a record |
| 44% | DISC | 4 | Record, e.g. |
| 44% | NOTE | 4 | A, B, C, D, E, F or G |
| 44% | TIE | 3 | Not quite break, as a record |
| 43% | ELS | 3 | World Match Play Championship champ a record seven times |
| 43% | IDIOM | 5 | "Bite the bullet" or "break a leg," e.g. |
| 43% | ENID | 4 | Mississippi lake where they pulled out a world record white crappie fish (5 lbs 3 oz) |
| 43% | KARSTEN | 7 | ___ Warholm, Norwegian athlete who set a world record for 400m hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 |
| 43% | MIROSLAW | 8 | Aleksandra ___, Polish climber who set a world record for speed climbing at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 |
| 42% | CHEER | 5 | "Gimme a G ...," e.g. |