| 100% | BLEED | 5 | Run, like colors in the washing machine |
| 86% | RAN | 3 | Bled, like colors in the washing machine |
| 83% | BLEED | 5 | Run, like colors in the wash |
| 78% | BLEED | 5 | Run, as colors in the washing machine (rhymes with "plead") |
| 68% | BLED | 4 | Ran, like colors in the laundry |
| 67% | BLED | 4 | Ran in the washing machine |
| 66% | BLEED | 5 | Run, as colors in the wash |
| 66% | BLEEDS | 6 | Runs, as colors in the wash |
| 66% | BLED | 4 | Ran, as colors in the wash |
| 66% | BLEEDS | 6 | Runs, as color in the wash |
| 63% | BLED | 4 | Ran in the wash, as colors |
| 58% | SUDS | 4 | What detergent creates in the washing machine |
| 56% | RAN | 3 | Bled in the washing machine |
| 56% | FADE | 4 | Lose color in the wash |
| 55% | BLEED | 5 | Transfer, as colors in the wash |
| 54% | ERRS | 4 | Pours dish detergent in the washing machine, say |
| 52% | BLEED | 5 | Run in the wash |
| 52% | BLED | 4 | Ran in the wash |
| 52% | BLEEDS | 6 | Runs in the wash |
| 52% | BLED | 4 | Ran in the washer |
| 50% | BLED | 4 | Ran in the wash, as fabric dyes |
| 50% | ERR | 3 | Run a wallet through the washing machine, say |
| 49% | DIRTY | 5 | Like clothes destined for the washing machine |
| 47% | BLED | 4 | Ran, as bright colors in the laundry |
| 44% | LESBIAN | 7 | Like the love story in 2013's "Blue Is the Warmest Color" |
| 44% | LOAD | 4 | "___ the washing machine." |
| 43% | SHADESOF | 8 | Colors in the family |
| 43% | PEAGREEN | 8 | Colored like the boat in Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" |
| 43% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like a nonfunctioning vending machine, or what the circled letters are, in two ways |
| 43% | ECRU | 4 | Color in the brown family |