| 100% | FINALLYFOUR | 11 | Like a three-year-old after a tough year, to Mom? |
| 48% | PHENOM | 6 | Like a 13 year old at Harvard |
| 46% | OWIE | 4 | How your three year old might describe the spot you slapped a Paw Patrol Band-Aid on after pulling out the sliver |
| 45% | ACHY | 4 | Sore, like after a tough workout |
| 43% | NEATEST | 7 | Like a bedroom most to Mom's liking |
| 43% | AGED | 4 | Like Scotch, for a minimum of three years |
| 42% | STEEP | 5 | Like a rock wall that's tough to climb |
| 42% | INAPICKLE | 9 | To be in a tough, sticky situation, like chutney |
| 42% | ELMO | 4 | "Sesame Street" Muppet who is supposedly three and a half years old |
| 41% | SHEHITME | 8 | Complaint to Mom after a sister's slap |
| 41% | STRIKEOUT | 9 | When a batter fails to hit after three pitches |
| 40% | HBD | 3 | Brief message to someone who's turning a year older |
| 40% | OFFAIR | 6 | Like things said after cutting to a commercial |
| 40% | TARDIER | 7 | Like a student arriving ten minutes after the bell, as opposed to five |
| 39% | OVERSEE | 7 | Look after old poetry, to a point |
| 39% | NOID | 4 | Reason the bartender might refuse service to a young-looking 25 year old |
| 37% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 37% | LAST | 4 | Like a senior year |
| 37% | SYNE | 4 | "Auld Lang ___" (song sung as a farewell to the old year) |
| 37% | BACKSTREET | 10 | ___ Boys, the American band that released the album "Never Gone" after a hiatus of three years |
| 37% | JKROWLING | 9 | First person to win a Smarties Prize, for children's books, three years in a row |
| 37% | INANE | 5 | Like a Three Stooges routine |
| 37% | ECCENTRIC | 9 | Like a three-dollar bill |
| 37% | LONG | 4 | Like a three-hour movie |
| 37% | NORUN | 5 | Like a three-pitch inning |
| 37% | FAKE | 4 | Like a three-dollar bill |
| 37% | BOOZY | 5 | Like a three-martini lunch |
| 37% | BOGUS | 5 | Like a three-dollar bill |
| 36% | SLEATERKINNEY | 13 | American band that released the album "No Cities to Love" after a hiatus of nine years: Hyph. |
| 36% | SLY | 3 | Like a three-card monte player |