| 100% | AIR | 3 | It can be fresh but not insulting |
| 65% | AIR | 3 | It can be thin but not fat |
| 63% | LAW | 3 | It can be broken, but not fixed |
| 54% | PALM | 4 | It has lines that can be read but not written |
| 54% | AIR | 3 | It can be fresh or hot |
| 50% | TAKE | 4 | It can be hot or not |
| 49% | HAIR | 4 | It can be spiked or set but never served |
| 49% | ARE | 3 | It can follow you but not me? |
| 49% | TIRE | 4 | It might be flat but not sharp |
| 49% | NOSE | 4 | It can run but not walk |
| 48% | LAWS | 4 | They can be passed but not failed |
| 47% | TIME | 4 | It can crawl or fly, but not walk |
| 47% | BAGEL | 5 | What can be everything, but not anything? |
| 47% | ANGLE | 5 | It may be right, but not left |
| 46% | NOISE | 5 | It could be white or background, but in any case librarians frown on it |
| 46% | DEFEATED | 8 | "A man can be destroyed but not ___": Hemingway |
| 45% | CDS | 3 | They can be ripped or burned but not torn |
| 45% | EGO | 3 | It can get bruised but may also be massaged? |
| 45% | ONION | 5 | Something that can be red or white, but not blue |
| 44% | CLAUSE | 6 | Grammar says it can be restrictive or not |
| 44% | VERB | 4 | What fish or chicken can be, but not turkey |
| 44% | DRESSING | 8 | It may be French or Italian, but not German |
| 44% | POEM | 4 | It "should not mean / But be," per Archibald MacLeish |
| 44% | TENSE | 5 | It may be perfect or simple, but not both |
| 43% | ELBOW | 5 | Body part that can be held with one hand, but not both |
| 43% | CATALYST | 8 | It speeds up a reaction but is not changed itself |
| 43% | APOEM | 5 | MacLiesh said it "should not mean / But be" |
| 43% | LOWERFORTYEIGHT | 15 | Alabama is in it, but Alaska is not |
| 42% | TUNE | 4 | It weighs nothing, but not everyone can carry one |
| 42% | ISI | 3 | But he saith unto them, It ___; be not afraid: John 6:20 |