| 100% | NINE | 4 | Number saved by a stitch in time |
| 64% | NINE | 4 | What a stitch in time saves |
| 62% | NINE | 4 | What a stitch in time saves, so they say |
| 58% | NINE | 4 | "A stitch in time saves ___" |
| 57% | NINE | 4 | "A stitch in time saves ___" (common proverb) |
| 56% | ADAGE | 5 | "A stitch in time saves nine," e.g. |
| 56% | NINE | 4 | "A stitch in time saves ___" (common rhyming idiom) |
| 56% | ADAGES | 6 | Sayings like "a stitch in time saves nine" |
| 55% | ADAGE | 5 | Saying such as "a stitch in time saves nine" |
| 54% | SAVESNINE | 9 | A stitch in time does this |
| 53% | SEW | 3 | Make a stitch in time |
| 53% | SAVESNINE | 9 | What a stitch in time does |
| 48% | SAVESNINE | 9 | "A stitch in time __" |
| 47% | POWER | 5 | How many times a number is multiplied by itself, in math |
| 46% | SAW | 3 | "A stitch in time ...," e.g. |
| 45% | STITCH | 6 | A __ in time saves nine |
| 44% | BEATS | 5 | Top number in a time signature |
| 44% | SCORES | 6 | Numbers or points in a game made by teams |
| 43% | RPM | 3 | Number of times a wheel rotates in a minute: Abbr. |
| 43% | HANSEL | 6 | He's saved by his sister, in a story |
| 42% | UPON | 4 | Once ___ a time in Mexico, movie by Robert Rodriguez |
| 42% | FLEW | 4 | Went by in a hurry, as time |
| 42% | POTATO | 6 | Food named six times in a children's number rhyme |
| 41% | STITCH | 6 | "A ___ in time saves nine" |
| 41% | STITCH | 6 | "A __ in time saves nine" |
| 41% | TIME | 4 | "A stitch in ___ saves nine," idiom related to problem-solving |
| 41% | ZERO | 4 | Number of games won by the losing player in a "bagel" set, in tennis |
| 41% | STAT | 4 | A number in sports, or a word used by doctors that means "right now!" |
| 41% | DOCTORWHO | 9 | BBC show in which a Time Lord travels by TARDIS: 2 wds. |
| 40% | BYE | 3 | Title word sung 52 times in a 2000 hit by 'N Sync |