| 100% | MUM | 3 | It's the word! |
| 100% | MUM | 3 | It's the word |
| 90% | MUM | 3 | It's the word when keeping things quiet |
| 85% | MUM | 3 | Shh ... it's the word! |
| 82% | MUM | 3 | It's sometimes the word |
| 82% | MUM | 3 | It's "the word" |
| 80% | HESAIDSHESAID | 13 | It's one's word against the other |
| 79% | LAT | 3 | It's a shortening of the Latin word for "broadest" |
| 77% | GYMNASIUM | 9 | It's what the word "gym" is short for |
| 77% | OED | 3 | It's 2021 word of the year was "vax" |
| 75% | PASYSTEM | 8 | It gets the word out |
| 74% | MUMS | 4 | It's "the word" when keeping a secret |
| 73% | MUM | 3 | It's "the word" when you're being silent |
| 73% | MUM | 3 | It's "the word" if you're being silent |
| 73% | MUM | 3 | It's "the word" if you're being secretive |
| 73% | PESETA | 6 | It carries the words "Rey de España" |
| 73% | MUMS | 4 | "___ the word!" ("It's a secret!") |
| 72% | WHATSNEW | 8 | "As state names go, it's the commonest first word" |
| 72% | MUM | 3 | It's "the word" if you're keeping a secret |
| 71% | SYSTEM | 6 | It's the S in Apple's iOS |
| 71% | QUEUE | 5 | Word that's pronounced the same after its last four letters are removed |
| 70% | SYSTEM | 6 | It's the S in Apple's iOS technology |
| 70% | SYNDROME | 8 | It's the S in AIDS, IBS and PMS |
| 70% | AYE | 3 | Word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet that's not in it |
| 70% | HATE | 4 | Word repeated four times in the chorus of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" |
| 69% | SUPER | 5 | Word that's its own synonym when a "b" is added to the end |
| 69% | SEMEME | 6 | The word for what a basic linguistic unit means, as "not" for "un-" (when pluralized, it's a palindrome) |
| 69% | LISP | 4 | "Whose cruel idea was it for the word '___' to have an S in it?" (Steven Wright joke) |
| 69% | BELONGS | 7 | When the word is out, it __ to another |
| 69% | MTOSSA | 6 | It's S. of the Vale of Tempe |