| 100% | LITERAL | 7 | Exactly as the word means; without metaphor |
| 51% | SYNONYM | 7 | Word meaning the same as another |
| 47% | SYNONYM | 7 | Word that means the same as another |
| 46% | ANTONYMS | 8 | Words that mean the opposite are known as __ |
| 45% | DAD | 3 | Word that means the same thing as "Pa" or "Pops" |
| 44% | ADIEU | 5 | French word that means the same as "au revoir" |
| 44% | PANTOMIME | 9 | Performance without words, as in the game of charades |
| 44% | SYNONYM | 7 | Word with the same meaning as another word |
| 43% | YEA | 3 | Word that means the same thing, and has the same letters as, "aye" |
| 42% | SEMEME | 6 | The word for what a basic linguistic unit means, as "not" for "un-" (when pluralized, it's a palindrome) |
| 42% | IDEM | 4 | Bibliographical word meaning "the same as previously mentioned" |
| 40% | FAKE | 4 | ___ news, ADS Word of the Year in 2017 which means "disinformation presented as real news" |
| 40% | SANS | 4 | Four-letter French word meaning without |
| 39% | SYNONYM | 7 | Word that means the same as another word |
| 39% | DEFINE | 6 | Explain the meaning of, as a word |
| 39% | SYNS | 4 | Words meaning the same thing (Abbr.) |
| 38% | SORTED | 6 | All in order, as the words in a dictionary |
| 38% | GARBLE | 6 | Confuse, as the words in a song's lyrics |
| 38% | SEMANTIC | 8 | Word meaning "concerning the meaning of words" |
| 38% | ARMS | 4 | Word meaning "weapons" in the Second Amendment |
| 38% | ONCUE | 5 | Exactly as expected in the script: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ABORIGINE | 9 | Latin word meaning the first inhabitants |
| 37% | GROOVY | 6 | Word meaning "very cool" for folks in the 1960s |
| 37% | SCORE | 5 | Word meaning "twenty" that appears in the Gettysburg Address |
| 37% | LEONA | 5 | Helmsley known as the Queen of Mean |
| 37% | EDIT | 4 | Change the wording of, as an article |
| 36% | WURST | 5 | Word meaning "sausage" that sounds as bad as can be |
| 36% | STUN | 4 | Word meaning "astound" whose letters appear within the word "astound" |
| 36% | RIM | 3 | Word meaning "perimeter" that's found within the word "perimeter" |
| 36% | BOOB | 4 | Word meaning "nincompoop" that reads the same forward and backward |