| 100% | DIES | 4 | Expires, passes away |
| 69% | DIES | 4 | Passes away |
| 69% | DIED | 4 | Passed away |
| 69% | DIE | 3 | Pass away |
| 67% | DIE | 3 | Pass away, perish |
| 64% | DIE | 3 | Pass away or cease living |
| 64% | DIE | 3 | Pass away from this world |
| 63% | INTESTATE | 9 | Passing away without leaving a will |
| 61% | THEBUCKET | 9 | Kick __; idiom for passing away |
| 58% | LOU | 3 | Rocker Reed who passed away in 2013 |
| 57% | INTESTATE | 9 | Person who passes away without leaving a will |
| 56% | DON | 3 | Insult comic Rickles who passed away in 2017 |
| 56% | LEE | 3 | Stan ___, Marvel comic legend who passed away recently |
| 55% | ANNAN | 5 | Kofi ____, Nobel Prize recipient who passed away in 2018 |
| 53% | LETITIA | 7 | First first lady to pass away in the White House |
| 52% | CAROLCHANNING | 13 | Singer/actress who passed away on January 15, 2019 (2 wds.) |
| 52% | STAN | 4 | ___ Lee, popular Marvel comic book writer who passed away in 2018 |
| 52% | WHILED | 6 | Passed (away) |
| 50% | DORIS | 5 | "Que Será, Será" singer Day who passed away on May 13, 2019 |
| 50% | ENGEL | 5 | "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" actress Georgia who passed away in 2019 |
| 50% | TOMSEAVER | 9 | Pitching legend and World Series champion who passed away on Aug. 31 |
| 50% | WHILED | 6 | Passed, with "away" |
| 49% | PAUL | 4 | ___ Walker, "Fast and the Furious" star who passed away in a car crash |
| 49% | KOFI | 4 | ___ Annan, former UN Secretary-General of Ghanaian origin who passed away this year |
| 49% | BART | 4 | Football Hall of Fame quarterback Starr who passed away on May 26, 2019 |
| 49% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature who passed away August 5, 2019 (2 wds.) |
| 49% | RICOCASEK | 9 | Lead singer of The Cars who passed away September 15, 2019 (2 wds.) |
| 49% | ALE | 3 | Name of the Squirrelfish on "FishCenter Live" that sadly passed away in 2018 |
| 47% | LEE | 3 | Stan ___, one of the primary creators in Marvel Comics who passed away in 2018 |
| 47% | JOHNSINGLETON | 13 | Director of 18-Across and 40-Across who passed away in 2019 (2 wds.) |