| 100% | FRISCOBAY | 9 | Inlet in an Otis Redding hit song |
| 47% | TRY | 3 | "___ a Little Tenderness" (Otis Redding hit song) |
| 45% | RESPECT | 7 | Word spelled out in an Aretha Franklin 1967 hit song |
| 41% | NEVER | 5 | "___ Be the Same," hit song by Camila Cabello that won an iHeartRadio award in 2019 |
| 39% | LUCKY | 5 | "I Should Be So ___," hit song by Australian singer Kylie Minogue which won an ARIA Music Award in 1989 |
| 39% | PEGOMYHEART | 11 | Classic song about an Irish lass that was a #1 hit in 1913 and 1947 |
| 38% | SLIDE | 5 | Hit song by the Goo Goo Dolls from their album "Dizzy Up the Girl" that won an ASCAP Pop Award in 2000 |
| 38% | OAKEN | 5 | Like a bucket in an old song |
| 38% | SUEDE | 5 | It's blue in an old song |
| 38% | ALICE | 5 | Restaurant owner in an Arlo Guthrie song |
| 38% | SUEDE | 5 | Like blue shoes in an Elvis song |
| 38% | LAYLA | 5 | Title woman in an Eric Clapton song |
| 38% | SUSIE | 5 | Girl sleeping in an Everly Brothers song |
| 37% | GEMOFTHEOCEAN | 13 | Columbia, in an old patriotic song |
| 37% | THEMANINTHEMOON | 15 | My sweetheart, in an old song |
| 37% | CLANG | 5 | Trolley sound, in an old song |
| 37% | AVENUE | 6 | Electric, in an Eddy Grant song |
| 37% | OLDIE | 5 | Hit song from back in the day |
| 37% | LABAMBA | 7 | Hit song in the son jarocho style |
| 37% | TRALEE | 6 | Mary's home, in an old song |
| 37% | ALLHERE | 7 | Like the gang, in an old song |
| 37% | ROWEDASHORE | 11 | Arrived like Michael in an old song? |
| 37% | SUEDE | 5 | Blue shoe material, in an Elvis song |
| 37% | SAL | 3 | Mule’s name in an old song |
| 37% | WERE | 4 | Held intro word in an . . . ''Oz'' song |
| 37% | PAM | 3 | “Polythene” woman in an “Abbey Road” song |
| 37% | TON | 3 | 1 of 16, in an old song |
| 37% | BOATEL | 6 | Inn in an inlet, say |
| 36% | AUNT | 4 | Rhody, in an old song |
| 36% | ATRAIN | 6 | Transportation in an Ellington song |