| 100% | SCHMUCK | 7 | Insult derived from the Yiddish word for "penis" |
| 70% | SCHMOOZE | 8 | Word derived from the Yiddish for "talk" |
| 59% | LEE | 3 | Surname derived from the Chinese word for "plum" |
| 59% | TSAR | 4 | Title derived from the Latin word for "caesar" |
| 58% | EUREKA | 6 | Exclamation derived from the Greek word for "I have found" |
| 57% | MAVEN | 5 | Word from the Yiddish for "expert" |
| 57% | DESERT | 6 | Sahara is derived from the Arabic word for this |
| 57% | GYRO | 4 | Meat dish derived from the Greek word for "turn" |
| 57% | ADAM | 4 | Name that derives from the Hebrew word for "earth" |
| 57% | AEON | 4 | Word derived from the Greek for "age" |
| 57% | KISMET | 6 | Word derived from the Arabic for "lot" |
| 56% | ABBOT | 5 | Word derived from the Aramaic for "my father" |
| 56% | EMOJI | 5 | Word derived from the Japanese for "picture writing" |
| 56% | PHARAOH | 7 | Word derived from the Egyptian for "great house" |
| 56% | SHAMPOO | 7 | Word derived from the Hindi for “to massage” |
| 56% | SKOSH | 5 | Word derived from the Japanese for "a bit" |
| 56% | ALOE | 4 | Plant name derived from the Arabic word for "shining bitter substance" |
| 56% | EMEER | 5 | Title which, in Arabic, derives from the word for "immortal" (var.) |
| 55% | ECRU | 4 | Common hose hue derived from the French word for "raw" |
| 55% | TIARA | 5 | Word derived from the Greek for "headdress of Persian kings" |
| 55% | OTTAWA | 6 | Capital whose name derives from the Ojibwa word for "traders" |
| 54% | ORE | 3 | Word derived from the Old English words for "unworked metal" and "copper" |
| 53% | RUBY | 4 | Gemstone whose name is derived from the Latin word for "red" |
| 53% | ATOM | 4 | Tiny particle that's derived from the Greek word for "indivisible" |
| 53% | LESION | 6 | Word derived from the Latin word for injury that my six year old might refer to as a "boo-boo" |
| 53% | NEON | 4 | Noble gas whose name derives from the Greek word for “new” |
| 52% | DESSERT | 7 | Course with a name derived from the French word for "clear the table" |
| 52% | ALMS | 4 | Word beggars used to cry, derived from the Greek word for mercy |
| 51% | ETUI | 4 | Lady's fancy needlecase, derived from the French word for "keeper" or "holder" |
| 51% | SCATHE | 6 | Word derived from the proto-Germanic for "to injure" which these days, means to verbally blast someone |