| 100% | DEATH | 5 | One of life's certainties, per Benjamin Franklin |
| 100% | TAXES | 5 | One of life's certainties, per Benjamin Franklin |
| 90% | {D/T}{E/A}{A/X}{T/E}{H/S} | 25 | Either one of life's two certainties, per Benjamin Franklin |
| 66% | TAXES | 5 | One of Benjamin Franklin's certainties |
| 66% | TAXES | 5 | One of Franklin's certainties in life |
| 59% | TAXES | 5 | One of life's certainties, in a saying |
| 56% | DEATH | 5 | One of Franklin's certainties |
| 56% | TAXES | 5 | One of Franklin's certainties |
| 55% | DEATH | 5 | One of Franklin's two certainties |
| 55% | TAXES | 5 | One of Ben Franklin's certainties |
| 49% | DIPLOMAT | 8 | One of many hats worn by Benjamin Franklin |
| 49% | DEATH | 5 | One of two certainties, to Franklin |
| 47% | CAMDEN | 6 | One end of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Bridge |
| 45% | PASSAMILESTONE | 14 | Go through one of life's significant moments |
| 44% | CHESS | 5 | Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___" |
| 44% | TAXES | 5 | One of two "certainties" in life |
| 42% | CAESAR | 6 | One of the lives in Plutarch's "Lives" |
| 42% | WISDOM | 6 | “Counsel woven into the fabric of real life,” per Walter Benjamin |
| 41% | SPRY | 4 | Full of life for one's age |
| 41% | STORY | 5 | One Direction's "___ of My Life" |
| 39% | UNIVERSALBASICOUTCOME | 21 | Death and taxes, per Benjamin Franklin? |
| 39% | EGO | 3 | Part of one's mental life |
| 39% | DEIST | 5 | Benjamin Franklin was one |
| 39% | TWEET | 5 | One of the President's dozen or more per day 280 character blurbs |
| 39% | ELIXIR | 6 | The ___ of life, a potion said to prolong one's life |
| 39% | REMORSE | 7 | "The poison of life," per Brontë's Rochester |
| 38% | BLAST | 5 | Time of one's life |
| 38% | MIDDLEAGE | 9 | Time of one's life |
| 38% | AGE | 3 | Time of one's life |
| 38% | BIO | 3 | Story of one's life |