| 100% | EZRA | 4 | It begins "In the first year of Cyrus..." |
| 97% | EZRA | 4 | It begins "In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia..." |
| 94% | EZRA | 4 | It begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia ..." |
| 79% | EZRA | 4 | Book that begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia ..." |
| 62% | FRESHMAN | 8 | Student in the first year of high school or college |
| 61% | TWEET | 5 | The first was in July 2006, but it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year in 2009 |
| 58% | YEARZERO | 8 | First year of the Khmer Rouge's rule in Cambodia |
| 58% | TIME | 4 | News magazine that runs a "Person of the Year" feature that released its first issue in 1923 |
| 57% | MDXI | 4 | Year of the first Spanish settlement in Cuba |
| 55% | SYNE | 4 | Last word in the first song of the year |
| 55% | ARENAFOOTBALL | 13 | Sport played in the first word of its name |
| 55% | YELLOWBRICKROAD | 15 | *It begins in the heart of Munchkin Country |
| 55% | ENERO | 5 | First month of the year, in Spanish |
| 55% | ESTHER | 6 | It begins "In the days of Ahasuerus ..." |
| 54% | OREO | 4 | Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters |
| 54% | TET | 3 | First day of the Lunar New Year, in Vietnam |
| 54% | EURO | 4 | It appeared in Europe at the beginning of 2002 |
| 53% | ROOK | 4 | It begins in the corner |
| 53% | PSALMONE | 8 | It begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 52% | OPEC | 4 | Qatar left it at the beginning of the year |
| 52% | ONEAD | 5 | The first year of the Common Era |
| 52% | MARCH | 5 | Month that was the first of the new year in early 3-Down calendars |
| 52% | PAGE | 4 | "Tomorrow is the first ___ in a book of 365" (common New Year's phrase) |
| 52% | MADMAGAZINE | 11 | Pac-Man was its "Man of the Year" in 1982 |
| 51% | PSALM | 5 | The first one begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 51% | HBOMAX | 6 | Streaming service that dropped the first three letters of its name when it rebranded in 2023 |
| 51% | DOG | 3 | President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these |
| 50% | DII | 3 | First year of the Liang dynasty |
| 50% | ONEAD | 5 | First year of the Common Era |
| 50% | MDI | 3 | First year of the XVIth century |