| 100% | REEDY | 5 | Like the sound of oboes |
| 91% | REEDY | 5 | Like the sound of an oboe |
| 75% | REEDY | 5 | Like the sound of bagpipes |
| 75% | JANGLY | 6 | Like the sound of change |
| 74% | RESONANT | 8 | Like the sound of a gong |
| 74% | SHRILL | 6 | Like the sound of a siren |
| 74% | SHRILL | 6 | Like the sound of a teakettle |
| 74% | REEDY | 5 | Like the sound of a clarinet |
| 74% | BRASSY | 6 | Like the sound of a horn |
| 73% | INSTEREO | 8 | Like the sound of surround sound, typically |
| 73% | EERIE | 5 | Like the sound of a creaky staircase |
| 73% | DEEP | 4 | Like the sound of a double bass |
| 73% | TINNY | 5 | Like the sound of a toy piano |
| 72% | TWANGY | 6 | Like the sound of a pedal steel guitar |
| 72% | OOH | 3 | "I like the sound of that!" |
| 70% | UHOH | 4 | "I don't like the sound of that" |
| 70% | RESONANT | 8 | Like the sound of Notre-Dame de Paris' Emmanuel, for example |
| 70% | UHOH | 4 | "I don't like the sound of that" (Hyph.) |
| 69% | FSHAPED | 7 | Like the sound holes of a cello |
| 69% | ATROCIOUS | 9 | Like the sound of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," per the song of the same name |
| 63% | VELAR | 5 | Sounding like the "ng" of ring |
| 62% | BRAYS | 5 | Sounds like one of the jennies |
| 62% | DOSIOLOGY | 9 | Like it sounds, the study of doses |
| 61% | MONDAYS | 7 | Sounds like someone has a case of the __ |
| 60% | EAVE | 4 | The part of a roof that sounds like eve |
| 59% | YEW | 3 | Tree that sounds like one of the vowels |
| 58% | VETO | 4 | Presidential action that sounds like one of the Corleones |
| 58% | YEWS | 4 | Trees whose name sounds like letters of the alphabet |
| 58% | EEK | 3 | Shriek that sounds like part of the word "shriek" |
| 57% | BREE | 4 | "Lord of the Rings" village that sounds like a cheese |