| 100% | TARPAULIN | 9 | Covering whose name is often shortened to its first four letters |
| 77% | AROMANTIC | 9 | Orientation whose name is often shortened to its first three letters |
| 61% | PERMANENTWAVE | 13 | *Salon job often shortened to its first four letters |
| 42% | HAITI | 5 | Country whose name anagrams to an island when its fourth letter is doubled |
| 42% | SETI | 4 | Scientific org. whose name's first letter is stylized to look like a question mark |
| 41% | AND | 3 | Word often shortened to its middle letter |
| 41% | YMCA | 4 | Org. that is often referred to by just its first letter |
| 40% | ARE | 3 | Word often shortened to its middle letter in texts |
| 40% | ARE | 3 | Verb often shortened to its middle letter in texting |
| 40% | YOU | 3 | Word often shortened to its last letter by texters |
| 40% | LEBARON | 7 | Chrysler model whose name becomes that of a country when its fifth letter is changed to an n |
| 40% | IHOP | 4 | Its four-word name was reduced to four letters in 1973 |
| 40% | ARE | 3 | Word that's often shortened to its middle letter in texts |
| 40% | ILLINI | 6 | College team whose name is its home state minus two letters |
| 39% | ETCETERA | 8 | Phrase typically shortened to its first three letters |
| 38% | 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 |
| 38% | KRIS | 4 | Singer whose first name is the first four letters of his last name |
| 38% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name is one letter off from its neighbor, Iraq |
| 38% | ETCETERA | 8 | Latin phrase often abbreviated to its first three letters |
| 37% | PORT | 4 | Wine whose name is the first half of its country of origin |
| 37% | NEHI | 4 | Brand whose name was chosen to remind people of its bottles' height |
| 37% | LISP | 4 | Speech impediment whose name is hard to say if you have it |
| 37% | JAY | 3 | Bird whose name sounds like its first letter |
| 37% | VERMONT | 7 | State whose last four letters are the first four letters of its capital |
| 37% | ESPY | 4 | Award whose name is one letter different from the channel that originated it |
| 37% | OHM | 3 | Physics unit whose name is pronounced at the beginning of its representative Greek letter |
| 37% | IMPALA | 6 | African creature whose name is one letter away from what its horns might do |
| 36% | USAIR | 5 | Company that added four letters to its name in 1997 |
| 36% | CANOE | 5 | Vessel whose name anagrams to where it might be used |
| 36% | TWEEZERS | 8 | Tool whose name is a rock band if you remove the first and last letters |