| 100% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose leaders received a 2015 letter from Republican senators |
| 41% | FIJI | 4 | Country whose name is one letter different from a mountain |
| 36% | TITO | 4 | Leader whose 1980 funeral in Belgrade was attended by dignitaries from a hundred and twenty-eight countries |
| 34% | PARAGUAY | 8 | Country whose name comes from a Guaraní word |
| 32% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name is one letter off from its neighbor, Iraq |
| 31% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q |
| 29% | ACDC | 4 | Rock group whose name came from letters found on a sewing machine |
| 28% | ISR | 3 | Country whose postal service has a special "Letters to God" dept. |
| 27% | GRADE | 5 | Letter from a teacher |
| 27% | IOU | 3 | Letters from a debtor |
| 27% | QED | 3 | Letters from a mathematician |
| 27% | EDU | 3 | Letters from a dorm? |
| 27% | MONACO | 6 | Country whose leader has competed in five Winter Olympics |
| 27% | IOU | 3 | Letters from a short person? |
| 27% | ALPHABET | 8 | Letters from A to Z |
| 27% | PLS | 3 | Letters from a polite texter |
| 27% | PERU | 4 | Country whose name becomes that of a currency when its second letter is doubled and its last two letters are moved to the front |
| 26% | RITA | 4 | Moreno who received a 2015 Kennedy Center Honors award |
| 26% | LEBARON | 7 | Chrysler model whose name becomes that of a country when its fifth letter is changed to an n |
| 26% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose Supreme Leader is an ayatollah |
| 26% | GETINTO | 7 | Receive an acceptance letter from |
| 26% | OMG | 3 | Shocked letters from a texter |
| 26% | FIJI | 4 | Pacific island country whose name contains three dotted letters in a row |
| 26% | OLYMPIASNOWE | 12 | Republican senator from Maine 1995-2013 (2 wds.) |
| 26% | PAULAHAWKINS | 12 | Republican senator from Florida 1981-1987 (2 wds.) |
| 26% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose last letters are hidden in "Tehran" |
| 26% | OMAN | 4 | Country whose name sounds like a Jamaican exclamation |
| 26% | SNOWE | 5 | Olympia ___, Republican senator from 1995-2013 |
| 26% | ANGOLA | 6 | Country whose flag depicts a machete |
| 26% | NOTE | 4 | Any letter from A to G |