| 100% | ROBUSTA | 7 | Common name of coffee from sub-Saharan Africa |
| 48% | ZAIRE | 5 | Former name of sub-Saharan Africa's largest country |
| 41% | OKRA | 4 | Food whose name comes from a language of West Africa |
| 40% | QUARTZ | 6 | Common name of silicon dioxide |
| 40% | YEW | 3 | Common name of Taxus baccata |
| 39% | BANTU | 5 | Language group of sub-Saharan Africa |
| 39% | FOOLSGOLD | 9 | Common name of brassy mineral pyrite |
| 39% | HAWTHORN | 8 | Common name of prickly Crataegus tree |
| 39% | MASSICOT | 8 | Common name of yellow lead oxide |
| 39% | LITHARGE | 8 | Common name of red lead oxide |
| 38% | BIRTHMARK | 9 | Common name of the medical condition, nevi |
| 38% | SALTPETRE | 9 | Common name of potassium nitrate and KNO3 |
| 38% | PINENUT | 7 | Common name of piñón or pinoli, edible seed |
| 37% | URSA | 4 | Common name of "Great Bear" and "Little Bear" constellation |
| 37% | BASTILLEDAY | 11 | Common name of France's July 14 "Fête nationale" |
| 37% | BAJANS | 6 | Name of people from Barbados |
| 37% | EARDRUM | 7 | Common name of the tympanic membrane, located in the head |
| 36% | BOOMSLANG | 9 | Venomous tree snake of sub-Saharan Africa |
| 36% | TOPI | 4 | Glossy-coated antelope of Sub-Saharan Africa |
| 36% | DRYICE | 6 | Two-word common name of solid carbon dioxide |
| 36% | MERCURY | 7 | Quicksilver is the common name of this element |
| 36% | RHODESIA | 8 | Name of Zimbabwe from 1964-79 |
| 36% | DDAY | 4 | Common name of the pivotal WWII date June 6, 1944: Hyph. |
| 36% | SHALLOT | 7 | More common name of a multiplier or cluster onion |
| 35% | GREGORY | 7 | After John, the second most common name of a pope |
| 35% | WEDNESDAY | 9 | Name of a character from the Addams Family |
| 35% | SERENITY | 8 | Name of film, spaceship from TV's Firefly |
| 34% | NORA | 4 | Name of the heroine from "A Doll's House" |
| 34% | IRMA | 4 | The name of the waitress from "Garfield" |
| 34% | OMAR | 4 | Last name of a representative from Minnesota |