| 100% | COPY | 4 | Material for the editor to look over |
| 51% | REVIEW | 6 | To look over something again for errors |
| 50% | CURATE | 6 | To look over the items in a collection |
| 47% | MINEPIT | 7 | Place to look for the silver lining? |
| 44% | DELE | 4 | Editor's mark to remove the text, for short |
| 43% | SHOEGAZE | 8 | Genre named for the tendency of its performers to look down while playing |
| 43% | THUMB | 5 | "One for the ___!" (phrase from someone looking to win a fifth championship ring) |
| 41% | DELE | 4 | Editor's mark to remove a certain part of the text, for short |
| 41% | MESH | 4 | Material for the screen |
| 41% | GRIST | 5 | Material for the mill |
| 41% | RETCONS | 7 | Updates the backstory to accommodate new material, for short |
| 41% | DENIM | 5 | Material for Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake’s matching red-carpet looks at the 2001 American Music Awards |
| 41% | ODDITIES | 8 | Material for the Guinness Book |
| 40% | PAPYRUS | 7 | Material for the Book of the Dead |
| 39% | TEALEAVES | 9 | Reading material for the future? |
| 39% | FOIL | 4 | Hat material for the paranoid |
| 39% | LIMESTONE | 9 | Material for the Empire State Building's facade |
| 39% | YUCCAROOT | 9 | Material for the ball in a Keshjee ceremony |
| 39% | CACAO | 5 | Raw material for The Hershey Company |
| 39% | CLAY | 4 | Court material for the French Open |
| 39% | STONE | 5 | Building material for the Washington Monument |
| 39% | BALDRIC | 7 | Belt for a sword worn over one shoulder and reaching down to the opposite hip |
| 39% | COPY | 4 | Material for an editor |
| 39% | EDIT | 4 | Look over for typos |
| 38% | EYE | 3 | Look over, or give the once-over |
| 38% | STRAW | 5 | Building material for the first little pig |
| 38% | STRAW | 5 | Building material for the Three Little Pigs |
| 38% | ADOBE | 5 | Building material for the Huaca del Sol |
| 38% | FOOTAGE | 7 | Material for a film editor |
| 38% | HEED | 4 | The editor has to listen |