| 100% | IFEVER | 6 | In song, words before "a wiz there was" |
| 67% | EVER | 4 | "... if ___ a Wiz there was" (song lyric in "The Wizard of Oz") |
| 60% | TEACHME | 7 | Words before "Tonight" in a 1954 song title |
| 59% | STOP | 4 | Song word before "Wait a minute / Fill my cup, put some liquor in it" |
| 58% | IDONOT | 6 | Words before "Hook Up" in a Kelly Clarkson song title |
| 58% | LET | 3 | Word before "It Go" and "It Be," in song titles |
| 58% | OHOLYNIGHT | 10 | Words before "the stars are brightly shining," in a carol |
| 58% | LET | 3 | Word before "It Go" and "It Be," in hit song titles |
| 56% | OUI | 3 | Word repeated before Marie in a 1918 song title |
| 56% | IPANEMA | 7 | A girl was from there in a 1964 hit song |
| 55% | EVER | 4 | "... if ___ a wiz there was" |
| 54% | MRKITE | 6 | Character for whose benefit there will be a show tonight, in a Beatles song |
| 54% | TURNTURNTURN | 12 | Words preceding the parenthetical "(To Everything There Is a Season)" in a 1965 Byrds song title: 3 wds. |
| 54% | BAD | 3 | Word before "Habit" in a Steve Lacy song title or "Habits" in an Ed Sheeran song title |
| 53% | LETIT | 5 | Words before "Be" and "Go" in two hit songs |
| 52% | BOOM | 4 | Word repeated four times before “I want you in my room,” in a Vengaboys song |
| 52% | PREPOSITION | 11 | Word before a noun in a phrase |
| 52% | MERRILY | 7 | Word repeated four times before "Life is but a dream," in "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" |
| 51% | SET | 3 | Word whose "430 definitions" are used in a song, in a Girls5eva gag |
| 51% | KNOCK | 5 | Word repeated before "Who's there?" in a classic joke |
| 51% | CLASSOF | 7 | Words before a year, in an alumni magazine |
| 51% | NEE | 3 | Word before a maiden name in wedding announcements |
| 51% | SEEN | 4 | Word before a time stamp in direct messaging |
| 50% | NEE | 3 | Word before a maiden name in a family tree |
| 50% | THERESNO | 8 | Words before business in song |
| 50% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 50% | AREAL | 5 | Words before nowhere man, in song |
| 49% | NOS | 3 | There are eight of these before "baby" in Elvis's "A Big Hunk o' Love" |
| 49% | YRS | 3 | There are 100 in a cen. |
| 49% | PENCE | 5 | There are five in a shilling |