| 100% | HELLO | 5 | Meaning of "Ciao" and "Bonjour" |
| 67% | PERISCOPE | 9 | Means of looking above and beyond |
| 67% | MEDIA | 5 | Means of communication, press and TV |
| 66% | EMOTICON | 8 | Means of communication using dots and dashes |
| 65% | DRUNK | 5 | Meaning of the slang words "turnt" and "lit" |
| 64% | REPEAT | 6 | Meaning of two dots and a bar, in music |
| 62% | GARDENING | 9 | Means of keeping the weeds down and the blooms up |
| 62% | FERRY | 5 | Means of transport in Seattle, San Francisco and New York |
| 62% | TYPOS | 5 | Means of making money from honey and cash from hash? |
| 61% | TIMTOGO | 7 | Meaning of clearing one's throat and tapping one's wrist |
| 58% | ETYMOLOGY | 9 | The study of word origins and meanings |
| 58% | KEITEL | 6 | Harvey of Mean Streets and Pulp Fiction |
| 58% | AMANDA | 6 | Seyfried of Mamma Mia and Mean Girls |
| 58% | MODE | 4 | Counterpart of mean and median, in statistics |
| 57% | ITALIAN | 7 | Language in which Ciao means hello and goodbye |
| 57% | MODE | 4 | Partner of mean and median, in math class |
| 55% | WHEAT | 5 | Carolyn —, author of novels Mean Streak and Sworn to Defend |
| 55% | STATE | 5 | What "taxes," "wonkery" and "I mean" are each anagrams of |
| 55% | SEMIOLOGY | 9 | The study of signs and meaning |
| 54% | SABOT | 5 | French clog … and the root of an English word meaning "disrupt" |
| 54% | PADDLE | 6 | Piece of rowing equipment, and a verb that means "to row" |
| 52% | BADDIEL | 7 | David —, comedian and author of novels Time for Bed and Whatever Love Means |
| 52% | SPARK | 5 | Muriel —, author of novels The Girls of Slender Means and The Finishing School |
| 51% | ELEMENTAL | 9 | A word that means simple and basic, or pertaining to forces of nature |
| 50% | SKATE | 5 | Piece of rollerblading equipment, and a verb that means to "go around and rollerblade" |
| 50% | APE | 3 | Word that means to imitate someone and is also the name of a primate |
| 50% | BEWARE | 6 | Meaning of "cave" |
| 50% | BYTHEWAY | 8 | Meaning of BTW |
| 50% | ICAME | 5 | Meaning of "veni" |
| 50% | AGAINST | 7 | Meaning of "anti-" |