| 100% | VISE | 4 | Gripping or clamping tool (rhymes with "rise") |
| 59% | CLAMPING | 8 | Gripping or securing with a tool |
| 44% | BED | 3 | Word with rose or road |
| 43% | PLIERS | 6 | Gripping tool with serrated pincers |
| 43% | ATRANDOM | 8 | With no rhyme or reason |
| 42% | CLAMP | 5 | Gripping tool in a shop class (rhymes with "damp") |
| 42% | IRIS | 4 | Eye part that rhymes with "virus" or "Cyrus" |
| 42% | BAKLAWAS | 8 | Nutty pastries with rose or orange blossom water |
| 42% | SCONE | 5 | Pastry that can rhyme with "cone" or "gone" |
| 42% | AXE | 3 | Tool that rhymes, appropriately, with "hacks" |
| 42% | TAPEMEASURE | 11 | Tool with centimetre or inch markings |
| 41% | ERR | 3 | Verb that can rhyme with either "bare" or "burr" |
| 41% | PINCER | 6 | Tool with two jaws for gripping, pulling |
| 41% | AXE | 3 | Tool that rhymes with "wax" |
| 41% | KIT | 3 | Word with tool or travel |
| 41% | BED | 3 | Word with oyster or rose |
| 41% | SCHEME | 6 | Word with color or rhyme |
| 40% | ALL | 3 | Word said with right or rise |
| 39% | NICHE | 5 | Adjective that rhymes with "sheesh" or "pitch," depending on who you ask |
| 39% | OAR | 3 | Tool to propel a boat with no motor or sails |
| 39% | ICETONGS | 8 | Gripping tool paired with a bucket (2 wds.) |
| 39% | CHAINSAW | 8 | Loud cutting tool with teeth, gas or electric |
| 39% | EYEBROW | 7 | Body part that rises with skepticism or surprise |
| 38% | BILE | 4 | Anger or bitterness, rhymes with pile |
| 38% | DEEM | 4 | Consider or judge, rhymes with seem |
| 38% | HASTY | 5 | Quickly or hurried; rhymes with tasty |
| 38% | OAR | 3 | Tool used to move a boat with no motor or sails |
| 38% | WIELD | 5 | Handle a weapon or tool with skill and ease |
| 37% | SCREW | 5 | Word with "driver" to mean a tool or a cocktail |
| 37% | QUATRAIN | 8 | Four lines poem or stanza with a set rhyme pattern |