| 100% | OTTER | 5 | Mink's cousin that plays in rivers and whose name sounds like "water" |
| 54% | OTTER | 5 | Mink's cousin that plays in rivers |
| 43% | EWES | 4 | Animals whose name sounds like a letter that doesn't appear in its name |
| 39% | GAP | 3 | Retail giant that owns Banana Republic, and whose name sounds like empty space between two things |
| 38% | NIECE | 5 | Relative whose name sounds like a city in France |
| 38% | GECKO | 5 | Commercial mascot whose name sounds like that of its company |
| 38% | AETNA | 5 | Insurance giant whose name sounds like the volcano in Sicily |
| 37% | SORRENTO | 8 | Italian town whose name sounds like a Kia S.U.V. |
| 37% | BEIRUT | 6 | Foreign capital whose name sounds like a water passage to San Francisco |
| 37% | NME | 3 | British music magazine whose name sounds like a word that means foe |
| 37% | PLATTE | 6 | River whose name sounds like a word for a map |
| 36% | VESPA | 5 | Bike whose name sounds like a Bond girl reprised by Eva Green in 2006 |
| 36% | PEEDEE | 6 | Southeastern river whose name sounds like two letters |
| 35% | MOUSSE | 6 | Dessert whose name sounds like an animal's |
| 35% | OMAN | 4 | Country whose name sounds like a Jamaican's cry |
| 35% | ARIAL | 5 | Font whose name sounds like the Little Mermaid's |
| 35% | MONKSEAL | 8 | Sea creature whose name sounds like a mash-up of a jazz pianist and an R&B singer |
| 34% | PRYCE | 5 | Actor Jonathan, whose name sounds like it's worth something |
| 34% | EEK | 3 | Small Alaskan community that sounds like a cartoon shriek, but whose name means "two eyes" in Yupik |
| 34% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument whose name sounds like a rebuke of Obama's dog |
| 34% | SEA | 3 | Body of water whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet |
| 34% | JCCHASEZ | 8 | "It's Gonna Be Me" singer in N Sync whose name's first and last letters sound like "Jay-Z": 2 wds. |
| 34% | LIMPOPO | 7 | River that rises in South Africa whose name is derived from Rivombo |
| 33% | ARTIE | 5 | Name that sounds like its second and third letters |
| 33% | PEAR | 4 | Apple's cousin that sounds like "pair" |
| 33% | DAWG | 4 | ___ Music (genre for mandolinist David Grisman whose name sounds like it's hip-hop) |
| 33% | ELLY | 4 | Woman's name that sounds like its second and first letters, respectively |
| 32% | YEW | 3 | Tree whose name sounds like "you" |
| 32% | YEW | 3 | Tree whose name sounds like "U" |
| 32% | LAOS | 4 | Country whose name sounds like "louse" |