| 100% | DACTYL | 6 | Long syllable followed by two short ones in poetry |
| 60% | IAMBUS | 6 | In poetry, a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable |
| 45% | SPONDEE | 7 | In poetry, a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables |
| 37% | EPODE | 5 | Type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one |
| 37% | MICCHECK | 8 | Phrase followed by "one two, one two" |
| 36% | EBWHITE | 7 | Author whose last name's first letter, followed by the two initials that precede his last name, form a word in one of his most famous titles |
| 35% | DACTYL | 6 | A poetic unit of one long and two short syllables |
| 34% | ERE | 3 | Short palindrome in the middle of a famous longer one |
| 34% | TWELVE | 6 | Largest number formed by one syllable in English |
| 34% | EIRE | 4 | Country name pronounced by natives in two syllables |
| 34% | NONO | 4 | One of two pitching gems by 28-Across, in slang (Hyph.) |
| 33% | DIPHTHONG | 9 | Coalition of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable |
| 33% | ABE | 3 | Name that's one syllable in English, two syllables in Japanese |
| 32% | SONGOFTHEYEAR | 13 | One of the two Grammy categories won by 31-Across in 2013: 4 wds. |
| 32% | BESTNEWARTIST | 13 | One of the two Grammy categories won by 31-Across in 2013: 3 wds. |
| 31% | TRA | 3 | Singing syllable followed by "la" |
| 31% | SHARP | 5 | In music, an accidental that raises the pitch of the following note by one chromatic semitone |
| 31% | ZETA | 4 | Letter followed by two rhymes |
| 30% | MINI | 4 | ___ skirt, short fashion of the 2000s, rocked by Britney Spears in "...Baby One More Time" |
| 30% | SHARP | 5 | Accidental in music that raises the pitch of the following note by one chromatic semitone |
| 30% | STOOGES | 7 | Ones in funny shorts |
| 30% | SCREECHED | 9 | One of the longest one-syllable words in English |
| 30% | JUMPCUT | 7 | Editing technique where one continuous shot is broken into two parts by removing frames in between |
| 30% | TROCHEES | 8 | Long-short feet, in poetry |
| 30% | ADMIN | 5 | Ones in charge, for short |
| 30% | CEO | 3 | One in charge, for short |
| 30% | PERP | 4 | One in handcuffs, for short |
| 30% | PITSAW | 6 | Cutting tool handled by two people, one of whom is often standing in a hole in the ground |
| 29% | HOLT | 4 | ___ Richter, one of the two characters voiced by Jason Sudeikis in the TV series "The Cleveland Show" |
| 29% | ANAPEST | 7 | In poetry, unstressed syllables before stressed |