| 100% | THEIMPROV | 9 | Chain that supports more stand-up than its name implies |
| 39% | PRAIRIEDOG | 10 | Animal that's more akin to a squirrel than a canine, despite its name |
| 38% | ESPOUSE | 7 | Stand up for a cause, support it |
| 37% | JAMBA | 5 | Chain that dropped “Juice” from its name in 2019 |
| 37% | IHOP | 4 | Chain that temporarily changed its name to advertise its burgers |
| 36% | OTIS | 4 | Name that has its ups and downs |
| 36% | JAMBA | 5 | Juice chain that dropped "Juice" from its name in 2019 |
| 36% | ACE | 3 | Hardware store chain that took its name from fighter pilots |
| 36% | AMC | 3 | Theater chain that shares its name with a TV channel |
| 35% | REDROBIN | 8 | Burger chain that shares its name with a harbinger of spring |
| 35% | IKEA | 4 | Furniture chain that includes Allen wrenches in many of its boxes |
| 35% | NAPA | 4 | Auto parts chain that shares its name with a California wine valley |
| 35% | ARCLIGHT | 8 | Onetime theater chain that shared its name with a type of lamp |
| 34% | ANT | 3 | Insect that lifts more than its weight |
| 34% | UGLI | 4 | Fruit that lives up to its name |
| 33% | FRONT | 5 | Business that's more illicit than it seems |
| 32% | ROME | 4 | Capital that predates its country by more than twenty-five hundred years |
| 32% | FLEA | 4 | Creature that can leap more than 150 times its own body length (!) |
| 32% | PERMANENT | 9 | Salon job that doesn't live up to its name |
| 32% | MINI | 4 | BMW subsidiary that’s bigger than its name suggests |
| 32% | DIME | 4 | Coin that's smaller than a penny even though it's worth more |
| 32% | UMBRELLA | 8 | Rihanna song with the lyric "Now that it's raining more than ever" |
| 31% | DOLLARTREE | 10 | Chain store that sells many of its items for $1.25, curiously |
| 31% | IPAD | 4 | Product that had sales of more than 300,000 on its first day in 2010 |
| 31% | MINUTEWALTZ | 11 | Piece longer than its name suggests |
| 31% | SAMOSA | 6 | Savory pastry whose name has one more letter than that of a Polynesian island nation |
| 31% | EEL | 3 | California river known more for salmon and trout than the fish it's named after |
| 31% | BOULDER | 7 | City that, despite its name, is smaller than Little Rock |
| 30% | ATL | 3 | 53-Down with more than 70 sts. that have a form of "Peachtree" in their names |
| 30% | ANN | 3 | Per ssa.gov, baby name that's far more popular when "a" is added to it |