| 100% | IAMBUS | 6 | In poetry, a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable |
| 67% | SPONDEE | 7 | In poetry, a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables |
| 55% | DACTYL | 6 | Long syllable followed by two short ones in poetry |
| 51% | EPODE | 5 | Type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one |
| 41% | DACTYL | 6 | A poetic unit of one long and two short syllables |
| 38% | IAMB | 4 | A metrical foot, in poetry |
| 36% | HIIT | 4 | Workout that consists of a strenuous exercise followed by a recovery period: Abbr. |
| 35% | SPONDEE | 7 | A poetic foot of two long or stressed syllables |
| 35% | IAMB | 4 | Poetic foot with a short and long syllable |
| 35% | GREENOLIVE | 10 | There's a 15-foot-tall sculpture of one in Corning, California, skewered by a giant toothpick |
| 34% | INCH | 4 | One of 12 in a foot |
| 34% | INCH | 4 | One of twelve, in a foot |
| 34% | INCH | 4 | One of twelve in a foot |
| 34% | IAMB | 4 | Poetic foot with a short and a long syllable |
| 34% | ANT | 3 | One in a long line of workers? |
| 34% | SEC | 3 | One of 60 in a minute, for short |
| 34% | SIB | 3 | One of five in a quintuplet, for short |
| 34% | SEC | 3 | One of sixty in a minute, for short |
| 33% | SEC | 3 | One of the sixty in a minute, for short |
| 33% | TROCHEES | 8 | Long-short feet, in poetry |
| 33% | UMP | 3 | One of four officials in a baseball game, for short |
| 33% | GIN | 3 | One of the liquors in a Long Island Iced Tea |
| 33% | PEDI | 4 | Pampering of foot in a spa, for short |
| 33% | ALEMBIC | 7 | Distilling apparatus used in chemistry consisting of two vessels connected by a tube |
| 32% | TREKKING | 8 | Making a long journey by foot, in the mountains |
| 32% | SHARP | 5 | In music, an accidental that raises the pitch of the following note by one chromatic semitone |
| 32% | INCH | 4 | One-twelfth of a foot or unit in which rainfall is measured |
| 32% | SHARP | 5 | Accidental in music that raises the pitch of the following note by one chromatic semitone |
| 32% | ESAU | 4 | One of a pair of brothers in a Biblical reconciliation painted by Rubens |
| 32% | TOUCHDOWNPASS | 13 | One of a record 50 thrown by 15-Across in 2007: 2 wds. |