| 100% | MERCATOR | 8 | Gerardus —, 16th-century Flemish cartographer and mathematician |
| 43% | TSARS | 5 | 16th century's Vasily and Vladislav, e.g. |
| 40% | MERCATOR | 8 | 16th-century cartographer |
| 39% | HUGUENOT | 8 | French Calvinist of the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 38% | PAVANE | 6 | Slow processional dance of the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 36% | ARETINO | 7 | 16th-century Italian poet and satirist |
| 36% | TINTORETTO | 10 | 16th century Italian painter of the Venetian School, born Jacopo Robusti, nicknamed "Il Furioso" and better known as this |
| 35% | MERCATOR | 8 | Flemish cartographer |
| 34% | AMATI | 5 | Family of violin makers active in Cremona, Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 34% | ONEI | 4 | Childhood name of Komatsuhime, famous Japanese female warrior of the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 34% | AMATI | 5 | Family of violin makers active in Cremona, Italy, in the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 34% | MDI | 3 | 16th century start |
| 34% | MDL | 3 | 16th century date |
| 34% | PAULIV | 6 | 16th century pope |
| 34% | HUGUENOT | 8 | Member of the French Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries influenced by John Calvin |
| 34% | PARTITAS | 8 | 16th century instrumental pieces |
| 33% | BERTRANDRUSSELL | 15 | Noted 20th-century mathematician, philosopher and pacifist |
| 33% | SEAPOWERS | 9 | Spain and England in the 16th century |
| 33% | TALLIS | 6 | Thomas —, 16th-century English composer and organist |
| 33% | GALLIARD | 8 | Dance in triple time for two people popular in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 33% | THALES | 6 | Pre-Socratic philosopher and mathematician |
| 33% | SHAKESPEAREISBORN | 17 | 16TH CENTURY: Russia war-torn... |
| 33% | MARY | 4 | 16th century queen of scots |
| 32% | RUBENS | 6 | 17th century flemish painter |
| 32% | IVAN | 4 | Ruthless Russian: 16th century |
| 31% | RAKEHELL | 8 | Wild and immoral, like a 16th century libertine |
| 31% | PASCAL | 6 | French philosopher and mathematician Blaise |
| 31% | MDI | 3 | Start of the 16th century |
| 31% | EON | 3 | Centuries and centuries |
| 31% | EULER | 5 | 18th-century mathematician who pioneered in graph and number theory |