| 100% | NICKADAMS | 9 | Protagonist in many Ernest Hemingway stories |
| 61% | RAMA | 4 | Protagonist in many a Diwali story |
| 45% | HORTON | 6 | Elephant character in many Seuss stories |
| 42% | ISLANDSINTHE | 12 | Ernest Hemingway novel published posthumously in 1970 |
| 42% | UFOS | 4 | Vehicles in many tabloid stories |
| 41% | LASER | 5 | Beam in many sci-fi stories |
| 41% | ALIENINVASION | 13 | Occurrence in many sci-fi stories |
| 41% | END | 3 | Last phrase in many stories, "The __" |
| 41% | TERRA | 5 | Earth, in many sci-fi stories |
| 41% | MAINFRAME | 9 | Brain in many an Asimov story |
| 41% | AMBULANCE | 9 | Vehicle driven by Ernest Hemingway in WWI |
| 41% | OTIS | 4 | Company whose products appear in many stories |
| 41% | SLED | 4 | Vehicle in many a Jack London story |
| 40% | AIDE | 4 | Unnamed source in many a Trump news story |
| 40% | SLED | 4 | Snow transport in many a Jack London story |
| 39% | SUPERHEROES | 11 | Many protagonists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe |
| 39% | MONOMYTH | 8 | Single pattern that occurs in many stories, per Joseph Campbell |
| 38% | IRONY | 5 | Literary device in many O. Henry stories |
| 38% | PARABLE | 7 | Story with a lesson in it, Jesus told many |
| 37% | DOGSLEDS | 8 | Vehicles in many Jack London stories (2 wds.) |
| 36% | TWEENS | 6 | Many characters in coming-of-age stories |
| 36% | ALEX | 4 | ___ Cross (protagonist in many James Patterson books) |
| 36% | ODONNELL | 8 | Chris —, actor who portrayed author Ernest Hemingway in 1996 biopic In Love and War |
| 35% | CHRIS | 5 | ___ O'Donnell, actor who portrayed Ernest Hemingway in the 1996 film "In Love and War" |
| 35% | WINE | 4 | "One of the most civilized things in the world," per Hemingway |
| 35% | NICKADAMS | 9 | Protagonist for much of Hemingway's In Our Time |
| 35% | ALEX | 4 | ___ Cross, fictional former FBI agent and psychologist created by James Patterson who is the protagonist in many of his books |
| 34% | SHOES | 5 | One of the six words in Hemingway’s apocryphal six-word story |
| 33% | KRISHNA | 7 | In Hinduism, the most celebrated of the deities whose story is told in the Mahabharata |