| 100% | THE | 3 | English language's most frequent word |
| 58% | THE | 3 | Most common word in the English language |
| 58% | THE | 3 | Most common English language word |
| 57% | LATELATIN | 9 | Language from which many English words are derived |
| 56% | THE | 3 | Most common word in the English language ending in "E" |
| 56% | YOU | 3 | Most common word in the English language ending in "U" |
| 50% | LATELATIN | 9 | Language that's a source of much English |
| 48% | THE | 3 | Most-used English word |
| 46% | THE | 3 | Most common English word |
| 46% | THE | 3 | Most common word in English |
| 46% | THE | 3 | Most commonly written English word |
| 46% | THE | 3 | Most commonly used English word |
| 45% | THE | 3 | Most commonly written word in English |
| 45% | PIGLATIN | 8 | Language in which most words rhyme |
| 44% | MAMA | 4 | Word for "mother" in many languages |
| 44% | LAO | 3 | Language in which most words are monosyllabic |
| 43% | LATELATIN | 9 | Source of many English words |
| 43% | THE | 3 | Most common word in English, according to Oxford |
| 43% | MOIST | 5 | Adjective that's been called "one of the most hated words in the English language" |
| 42% | HYPHEN | 6 | English language punctuation that looks like - and is used to connect compound words |
| 40% | AMMA | 4 | Palindromic word for mother, in many South Indian languages |
| 39% | MAMA | 4 | Word with the same meaning in English, Swahili and Mandarin, among other languages |
| 39% | OLDLATIN | 8 | Source of many English words that come to us via French |
| 38% | THE | 3 | Most commonly written word in English (though it doesn't appear in this clue) |
| 38% | JAVANESE | 8 | Indonesia's most popular language |
| 37% | ENG | 3 | World's most-spoken language: Abbr. |
| 37% | VANNA | 5 | The Guinness book once dubbed her "television's most frequent clapper" |
| 37% | OFTENER | 7 | More frequent |
| 37% | MANDARIN | 8 | The world's most spoken native language |
| 37% | CREE | 4 | Canada's most widely spoken indigenous language |