| 100% | PALO | 4 | Part of a California city name meaning "stick" in Spanish |
| 64% | AVIV | 4 | Part of a city name that means "spring" in Hebrew |
| 50% | SINGAPORE | 9 | ___ Sling, cocktail that shares part of its name with a city-state in Southeast Asia |
| 49% | ABABA | 5 | Part of a capital's name meaning "flower" |
| 48% | DELEON | 6 | Part of a Spanish explorer's name |
| 48% | TEL | 3 | Part of a Mediterranean city's name |
| 48% | PAULO | 5 | Part of a South American city's name |
| 48% | AIRES | 5 | Part of a South American capital city name |
| 47% | MONA | 4 | Part of a name in a da Vinci masterpiece |
| 47% | MAHI | 4 | Part of a fish name that means "very strong" |
| 46% | XXXXXX | 6 | First part of a name in the "Star Wars" universe |
| 45% | LACASA | 6 | Part of the name of many a Spanish restaurant |
| 45% | DALAI | 5 | Part of a religious title that means “ocean” in Mongolian |
| 45% | ALTO | 4 | Second word in a California city name |
| 45% | DOWNTOWN | 8 | Area known as the main part of a city in the US |
| 44% | GARAGE | 6 | Part of a house that lends its name to a music genre stereotypically rehearsed in it |
| 43% | MONTEREY | 8 | A city in California; a type of cheese |
| 43% | RIVERDALE | 9 | Name of a tiny inner city farm in Toronto |
| 43% | BREA | 4 | California city name meaning "tar" |
| 43% | LEMONTREE | 9 | Part of a California grove |
| 42% | TIERRA | 6 | ___ del Fuego (South American archipelago whose name means “Land of Fire” in Spanish) |
| 42% | PORTLAND | 8 | Name of the most populous city in a pair of states |
| 42% | ERIE | 4 | City on a lake of the same name in the US |
| 42% | GENOA | 5 | Type of salami named for a city in Italy |
| 42% | ASPEN | 5 | Colorado ski city named for the abundance of a certain tree in the area |
| 41% | WORKERSCOMPTON | 14 | Name of a labor union in a city south of Los Angeles? |
| 41% | AMARILLO | 8 | Texas Panhandle city whose name means "yellow" in Spanish |
| 41% | COLOGNE | 7 | Type of light fragrance named for a city in Germany |
| 41% | AREA | 4 | Part of a city |
| 41% | NEIGHBORHOOD | 12 | Part of a city |