| 100% | STEPHENCOLBERT | 14 | Satirist who redefined the word "truthiness" |
| 44% | CAPEK | 5 | Writer who coined the word "robot" |
| 44% | HLMENCKEN | 9 | *Writer who coined the word "booboisie" |
| 44% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Writer who coined the word "nerd" |
| 44% | TYCHOBRAHE | 10 | Astronomer who coined the word "nova" |
| 44% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist who coined the word "neutrino" |
| 44% | JUNG | 4 | Psychologist who coined the word "synchronicity" |
| 44% | IDA | 3 | Tin who coined the word "FemTech" |
| 44% | LYRICIST | 8 | One who writes the words for songs |
| 43% | MAVEN | 5 | Word from the Hebrew for "one who understands" |
| 43% | KAHN | 4 | Gus who wrote the words to "Makin' Whoopee" |
| 42% | EHRLICH | 7 | Bacteriologist Paul who coined the word "chemotherapy" |
| 42% | CAPEK | 5 | Czech playwright who coined the word "robot" |
| 42% | TYRA | 4 | Supermodel Banks who coined the word "smize" |
| 42% | NEAL | 4 | Author Stephenson who coined the word "metaverse" |
| 42% | NED | 3 | Cartoon character who inspired the word "Flanderization" |
| 41% | IDAREYOU | 8 | Words spoken to someone who hasn't chosen the truth? |
| 41% | IGOTNEXT | 8 | Words from someone who wants to play the winner, maybe |
| 40% | SPENCE | 6 | Trial lawyer who wrote "O.J.: The Last Word" |
| 40% | UNSAID | 6 | Like words to the one who got away, perhaps |
| 40% | COINED | 6 | Like the word "truthiness," by Stephen Colbert |
| 39% | SUBTITLER | 9 | Person who adds words to TV shows for the deaf |
| 39% | SKYWRITER | 9 | One who scrawls words in the air with a plane |
| 39% | EDS | 3 | People who get the last word in?: Abbr. |
| 39% | CAEN | 4 | Bay Area columnist who coined the word "beatnik" |
| 39% | SARAH | 5 | American spoken word poet ___ Kay who authored "No Matter the Wreckage" |
| 38% | CAPEK | 5 | Karel ___, writer who coined the word "robot" |
| 38% | FERMI | 5 | Enrico ___, physicist who coined the word "neutrino" |
| 38% | NORMANMAILER | 12 | Writer who coined the word "factoid" in his biography of Marilyn Monroe (2 wds.) |
| 38% | WILLIAMGIBSON | 13 | Writer who coined the word "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (2 wds.) |