| 100% | BASTARD | 7 | Derogatory term used for something (or someone not of genuine origins) |
| 37% | RENTAL | 6 | The act of paying someone for the use of something |
| 36% | FINANCE | 7 | To provide money for something or someone |
| 35% | METONYM | 7 | Example or attribute of something used to represent the whole, as "sword" for "military power" |
| 33% | SANDPAPER | 9 | Used for hand- or machine-smoothing of wood |
| 33% | YOUSWEAR | 8 | Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast |
| 31% | IMITATION | 9 | Mimicry of someone or something |
| 31% | SIGHTINGS | 9 | Glimpses of someone or something |
| 31% | BONAFIDE | 8 | Latin term used in English to mean genuine or real |
| 31% | MILD | 4 | Not medium or spicy, in terms of salsa |
| 31% | CATSPAW | 7 | Feline term for someone being used |
| 31% | PINE | 4 | Intense yearning for someone or something |
| 31% | RARE | 4 | Not medium or well-done, in terms of beef |
| 31% | IGNORE | 6 | To actively not notice someone or something |
| 31% | PHOBIA | 6 | Medical term for irrational fear of something |
| 31% | AFEARED | 7 | Old term for being afraid of something |
| 31% | SYMPATHY | 8 | Feeling of compassion or pity for someone |
| 30% | TOLL | 4 | Fee for use of roads or bridges |
| 30% | ODES | 4 | Poems often used to praise someone or something |
| 30% | TENS | 4 | "___ of people" (jocular term for a not-overwhelming group) |
| 30% | DUAD | 4 | Seldom used term for a pair of things |
| 30% | STEAD | 5 | In lieu of someone or something, "in his ___" |
| 30% | GENESIS | 7 | The origin or coming into being of something |
| 30% | AVAILED | 7 | Used or took advantage of something |
| 30% | BUB | 3 | Insolent term of address for a boy or man |
| 30% | WITHOUT | 7 | Absence or lack of something or someone |
| 30% | SIRE | 4 | Term of address used for a king |
| 29% | ENTITY | 6 | Something or someone |
| 29% | CHAIRMAN | 8 | "Male" term for the leader of a committee or board |
| 29% | BLIGHTY | 7 | Term for England used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars |