| 100% | EIGHTHNOTE | 10 | It's played for half a beat in 4/4 time |
| 50% | WHOLENOTE | 9 | It gets four beats in 4/4 time |
| 46% | VAMPS | 5 | Plays for time, in a way |
| 44% | ORE | 3 | It's searched for in a rush |
| 42% | SAW | 3 | Magician's prop for cutting a woman in half |
| 42% | SHAREWARE | 9 | It's free for a limited time |
| 42% | CASSETTE | 8 | It's played in a tape deck |
| 42% | TELEFONO | 8 | It's used for a call in Madrid |
| 42% | SPACEPEN | 8 | It's used for writing in a vacuum |
| 41% | SAL | 3 | Third baseman Bando who played for the A's in the 1960s and 1970s |
| 41% | RADIO | 5 | It was used to play music for the first time in 1906 |
| 40% | RADIUS | 6 | In mathematics, it's half a circle's diameter |
| 40% | GPA | 3 | It's 4.0 for a straight-A student |
| 40% | NIGHT | 5 | A strange thing, but it's time for bed |
| 40% | GET | 3 | "___ up! It's time for school" (shout heard in morning) |
| 39% | MINIM | 5 | Note representing half a beat in musical notation |
| 39% | PAPER | 5 | It's beaten by scissors in a game |
| 39% | STATUTE | 7 | Figure it’s about time for a law |
| 39% | AREA | 4 | For a rectangle, it's length times width |
| 39% | UPC | 3 | It's scanned in a store, for short |
| 39% | GPA | 3 | It's often 4.0 for a valedictorian: Abbr. |
| 39% | DOT | 3 | In music, the symbol placed after a note to increase its time value by a half |
| 38% | NORI | 4 | A Japanese word for seaweed; it's used in sushi |
| 38% | MIDNIGHTS | 9 | It broke Spotify's record for most-streamed album in a single day |
| 38% | PAN | 3 | Flash in the ___ (something that's popular for a short time) |
| 38% | BEAT | 4 | Length of a quarter note in 4/4 time |
| 38% | EYEOFTHETIGER | 13 | 1982 hit for Survivor with a sign of the Chinese zodiac in its title: 4 wds. |
| 38% | PAR | 3 | It's usually 3, 4, or 5 for a hole of golf |
| 38% | DRIVINGAGE | 10 | For a full license, it's 17 or 18 in most states |
| 37% | DRWHO | 5 | BBC classic whose title role will be played by a woman for the first time in 2017 |