| 100% | FALSEFRIEND | 11 | Misleading cognate, like the German "Gift" which actually means "poison" |
| 36% | NEUTER | 6 | Like the German "das" |
| 36% | NEUTER | 6 | Like the German “das” |
| 36% | ONIONY | 6 | Like the German cake Zwiebelkuchen |
| 36% | NEUTER | 6 | Like the German article "das" |
| 35% | MASC | 4 | Like the German article "der": Abbr. |
| 33% | BLAU | 4 | Like the Danube, to Germans |
| 32% | RHENISH | 7 | Like the area along a German river |
| 31% | IRONIC | 6 | Like "the gift of the magi" |
| 31% | HAMBURG | 7 | The German city that sounds like a fast food |
| 31% | OCTAL | 5 | Like the number system in which 2025 is 3751 |
| 31% | UBER | 4 | Slangy prefix from the German, meaning "super" |
| 30% | LIVINGINTHEPRESENT | 18 | Like the contents of a gift-wrapped pet carrier, hopefully? |
| 30% | FARFARAWAY | 10 | Like the galaxy from which 5-Down hails |
| 30% | DER | 3 | German masculine article meaning "of the" |
| 30% | UBER | 4 | Prefix from the German that means "super" in English |
| 30% | CLAPPERS | 8 | "To go like the __" means to move extremely fast |
| 30% | BADDEST | 7 | Sounds like the worst but it means best, toughest |
| 30% | VEDIC | 5 | Like the scriptures on which Hare Krishna is based |
| 30% | ZEITGEIST | 9 | German term meaning spirit of the age |
| 30% | YES | 3 | What the German word "ja" means |
| 30% | HANDMADE | 8 | Like gifts subject to the "sweater curse" |
| 29% | TWOL | 4 | Like the pack animal about which Nash wrote "he's a beast" |
| 29% | IDONTCARE | 9 | What the German idiom "It's sausage to me" means |
| 29% | SOUR | 4 | Like the fabled grapes which the fox couldn't reach |
| 29% | TACKY | 5 | Like leaving the price tag on a gift |
| 29% | TOLIVE | 6 | Meaning of the Spanish "vivir" or German "leben" |
| 29% | HIM | 3 | Meaning of the Italian "lui" or German "ihn" |
| 29% | SCUD | 4 | Name of a missile used in the gulf war, which means to move quickly like clouds |
| 29% | CHILEAN | 7 | Like the Copiapó mine, in which 33 miners were trapped underground in 2010 |