| 100% | KPOP | 4 | Genre of music played at the opening of the 2018 Olympics, familiarly |
| 35% | EPEE | 4 | Type of sword at the Olympics |
| 35% | LINEUPS | 7 | Lists of artists playing at music festivals |
| 34% | CLAP | 4 | Show appreciation at the end of a play |
| 34% | SEINE | 5 | Part of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony parade route |
| 34% | HIPHOP | 6 | The music genre of Kendrick Lamar and Doja Cat |
| 33% | DISCO | 5 | Type of music played at 2001 Odyssey in “Saturday Night Fever” |
| 33% | LINEMAN | 7 | NFL position for players who specialize in play at the line of scrimmage |
| 32% | ONTOP | 5 | At the front of the pack, competitively |
| 32% | AMID | 4 | At the center of, say |
| 32% | ATOP | 4 | At the summit of, say |
| 32% | SHOEGAZE | 8 | Genre named for the tendency of its performers to look down while playing |
| 31% | EIGHT | 5 | Number of gold medals that Michael Phelps won at the Beijing Olympics |
| 31% | RIO | 3 | Brazilian host of the 2016 Olympics, lovingly |
| 31% | ROQUE | 5 | American variant of Croquet that's aptly hidden in "Croquet," last played in the Summer Olympics in 1904 |
| 31% | UCONN | 5 | The Huskies of the Big East Conference, familiarly |
| 31% | CANDYCRUSH | 10 | *App craze of the early 2010s, familiarly |
| 30% | DJED | 4 | Played music at a party, say |
| 30% | SETANEWRECORD | 13 | Make history at the Olympics, say |
| 30% | EDM | 3 | Club music genre, familiarly |
| 30% | ENACT | 5 | Play the part of Julius Caesar on stage, say |
| 30% | START | 5 | Screen at the beginning of a video game, usually |
| 30% | SEEME | 5 | Note at the bottom of a plagiarized paper, perhaps |
| 30% | GROUPHUG | 8 | Mass at the end of a team meeting, perhaps |
| 30% | EDM | 3 | Genre heard at Ultra Music Festival, briefly |
| 30% | IVAN | 4 | Cornejo who won New Artist of the Year at the 2022 Billboard Latin Music Awards |
| 30% | FIRST | 5 | Like the item at the top of the agenda, usually |
| 30% | ALKALIS | 7 | Caustic compounds, found at the top of the pH scale |
| 30% | GREENBOOK | 9 | 2018 film in which Linda Cardellini played the wife of pianist Don Shirley's driver: 2 wds. |
| 30% | SPOONS | 6 | Music made using cutlery, aka playing the bones |