| 100% | ONHOLD | 6 | Listening to bad music, maybe |
| 74% | ONHOLD | 6 | Listening to repetitive music, maybe |
| 69% | XXXXXX | 6 | Listening to a music loop, maybe |
| 59% | BROOD | 5 | Sit in the corner listening to emo music, maybe |
| 56% | ONHOLD | 6 | Listening to Muzak, maybe |
| 53% | HEARPERLMAN | 11 | Listen to violinist Itzhak's music? |
| 52% | HELD | 4 | Listened to Muzak on the phone, maybe |
| 51% | NOISE | 5 | Really bad music, to the listener |
| 50% | ONHOLD | 6 | Listening to a looped clip of classical music, perhaps |
| 50% | EARBUDS | 7 | Small aural devices for listening to music |
| 50% | EAR | 3 | Organ which helps in listening to music |
| 50% | IMMORAL | 7 | Bad to the bone, maybe |
| 50% | SWAY | 4 | Move to the music, maybe |
| 50% | YES | 3 | Music to your ears, maybe |
| 48% | TOE | 3 | It may be tapped when you listen to music |
| 48% | SPEAKER | 7 | E.g. a portable device used for listening to music |
| 47% | OLDSOUL | 7 | Teen who exclusively listens to music from the ’70s, say |
| 47% | OFFTHEROCK | 10 | No longer listening to loud music? |
| 47% | EARGASM | 7 | Joy of listening to great music |
| 47% | HARKS | 5 | Listens closely, for herald angels to sing maybe |
| 47% | EARBUDS | 7 | They might be used when listening to music during a workout |
| 46% | HAT | 3 | Solution to a bad hair day, maybe |
| 46% | IPOD | 4 | Product touted as "a quantum leap in listening to music" at launch |
| 44% | WINCED | 6 | Reacted to a bad joke, maybe |
| 44% | RETESTED | 8 | Tried to undo bad marks, maybe? |
| 43% | EAR | 3 | Organ used to listen to music |
| 43% | EMOTRY | 6 | Attempt at listening to broody music? (... to a school in Georgia) |
| 42% | GAG | 3 | Respond to a really bad joke, maybe |
| 42% | BACHPROCESSING | 14 | *Listening to a Baroque fugue, maybe? |
| 42% | MOOED | 5 | ___ music (what cows listen to?) |