| 100% | WEPT | 4 | Second of two words in the shortest Bible verse |
| 62% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in the shortest verse in the Bible (John 11:35) |
| 55% | SOX | 3 | Second word in the names of two MLB teams |
| 48% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two baseball teams |
| 48% | DAKOTA | 6 | Word in the names of two US states |
| 48% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two MLB teams |
| 48% | SAN | 3 | Word in the names of two Central American capitals |
| 47% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two American League baseball teams |
| 46% | NONE | 4 | Last word in the first verse of "Old Mother Hubbard" |
| 46% | JEDI | 4 | Last word in the titles of two "Star Wars" movies |
| 46% | GENERAL | 7 | Word in the names of two of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies |
| 46% | KILL | 4 | Last word in the titles of two 1980s James Bond films |
| 46% | ADO | 3 | Second word in the title of a Shakespeare comedy |
| 46% | VOWEL | 5 | One of two in the word "one" |
| 45% | GOD | 3 | One of two words added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 |
| 45% | UNDERGOD | 8 | Two words added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 |
| 43% | RADIUS | 6 | Shorter of the two bones in the forearm |
| 42% | SAN | 3 | First word of the second-largest city in California |
| 42% | JESUSWEPT | 9 | The shortest Bible verse, John 11:35 |
| 42% | OWLS | 4 | Two residents of the Old Man's beard, in a Lear verse |
| 42% | CYBERCAFES | 10 | Places to get wired, in two senses of the word |
| 42% | WEPT | 4 | "Jesus ___" (Mavis Staples song based on the shortest verse in the Bible, in John 11) |
| 41% | RSV | 3 | The English translation of the Bible which was published in 1952, for short |
| 41% | ESTHER | 6 | Book of the Bible in which the word "God" never appears |
| 41% | DASH | 4 | One of two words in morse code |
| 40% | TONGUE | 6 | Word in the etymology of ''linguini'' |
| 40% | EMIR | 4 | Word in the etymology of "admiral" |
| 40% | ETUI | 4 | Word in the etymology of ''tweezers'' |
| 40% | PERSON | 6 | Word in the definition of ''anyone'' |