| 100% | BOSSANOVA | 9 | Music style whose name literally means "new trend" |
| 67% | ARSNOVA | 7 | Classical music style whose name means "new art" |
| 51% | STRUDEL | 7 | Pastry whose name literally means “whirlpool” |
| 50% | BASSET | 6 | Dog breed whose name literally means "rather low" |
| 50% | VINSANTO | 8 | Italian glassful whose name literally means “holy wine” |
| 50% | ROPA | 4 | ___ vieja (Cuban dish whose name literally means "old clothes") |
| 49% | TINTORETTO | 10 | Sixteenth-century Venetian painter whose name literally means “little dyer” |
| 46% | TACO | 4 | Food whose name means, literally, wadding |
| 46% | BAGEL | 5 | Food whose name means, literally, "ring" |
| 46% | AMIR | 4 | Leader whose name means, literally, "commander" |
| 46% | YOGA | 4 | Practice whose name means, literally, "union" |
| 46% | YEN | 3 | Currency whose name means, literally, "round" |
| 46% | RHINO | 5 | Animal whose name means, literally, "nose" |
| 45% | LASAGNA | 7 | Food whose name means, literally, "cooking pot" |
| 45% | HONSHU | 6 | Island whose name means, literally, "main land" |
| 45% | ECLAIR | 6 | Food item whose name means, literally, "lightning" |
| 45% | ETNA | 4 | Mount whose name means, literally, "I burn" |
| 45% | PSALMS | 6 | Bible book whose name means "instrumental music" |
| 45% | RAGA | 4 | Music whose name means "color" |
| 45% | ALLOSAURUS | 10 | Jurassic genus whose name means, literally, "different lizard" |
| 45% | KENDO | 5 | Martial art whose name means, literally, "sword way" |
| 45% | UNADON | 6 | Japanese dish whose name means, literally, "eel bowl" |
| 45% | ECLAIR | 6 | Treat whose name means, literally, "flash of lightning" |
| 44% | YOLATENGO | 9 | Indie band whose name means, literally, "I have it" |
| 42% | DARESSALAAM | 11 | African city of 4+ million whose name means, literally, "haven of peace" |
| 41% | NME | 3 | British music magazine whose name sounds like a word that means foe |
| 40% | BOP | 3 | Style of music whose name is derived from scat |
| 40% | ADDISABABA | 10 | World capital whose name means "new flower" |
| 38% | BOSSANOVA | 9 | Style of Brazilian music that means new wave |
| 37% | TERRANOVA | 9 | Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s ship, whose name means “new land” |