| 100% | ABRIDGE | 7 | Shorten by removing words without altering meaning |
| 38% | ARE | 3 | Verb sometimes shortened by removing its vowels |
| 37% | MADAM | 5 | Title sometimes shortened by removing its middle letter |
| 37% | MADAM | 5 | Title that's shortened by removing its middle letter |
| 36% | COMEHERE | 8 | Command sometimes shortened by removing its second, fourth, and fifth letters |
| 35% | AMEN | 4 | Mean to alter last word |
| 34% | AMEN | 4 | Mean to alter the last word |
| 33% | SANS | 4 | Four-letter French word meaning without |
| 33% | DUH | 3 | Word that retains its meaning when preceded by "no" |
| 33% | YOU | 3 | Word often shortened to its last letter by texters |
| 32% | LITERAL | 7 | Exactly as the word means; without metaphor |
| 32% | VIA | 3 | Flight connection word which means by way of |
| 31% | ROTUND | 6 | Word that retains its meaning when its third letter is removed |
| 31% | GLEAN | 5 | Word that rhymes with "clean" to mean gather bit by bit |
| 30% | IROCK | 5 | Boast formed by removing the middle two words of a popular Paul Simon song title |
| 30% | ROTUND | 6 | Word for “plump” that, when its third letter is removed, still means “plump” |
| 30% | ASIS | 4 | Tag words during a sale which means without warranty: 2 wds |
| 29% | QUAD | 4 | Play without words by Samuel Beckett first performed on television in 1981 |
| 29% | MUMS | 4 | "___ the word," phrase inspired by Shakespeare that means "keep it a secret" |
| 29% | SANS | 4 | Word that means "without" or "minus" |
| 29% | VENTILATTE | 10 | Drink that becomes a word meaning "air out" if you remove a T |
| 29% | DELETED | 7 | Removed words |
| 28% | FORGERY | 7 | Apt word spelled by the new letters that alter this puzzle's seven works |
| 28% | STAT | 4 | A number in sports, or a word used by doctors that means "right now!" |
| 28% | VIA | 3 | Itinerary word meaning "by means of" |
| 27% | ILOST | 5 | Words without a W? |
| 27% | TETE | 4 | Word linked by an "a" to mean a heart-to-heart conversation |
| 27% | UTTER | 5 | Word meaning blurt out, and when you've blurted it, the same word could be followed by nonsense |
| 27% | LABELLEDAME | 11 | "___ sans Merci", a ballad by John Keats which means "The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy" : 3 wds. |
| 26% | WABE | 4 | Word in "Jabberwocky" that Lewis Carroll said meant "the side of a hill (from its being soaked by rain)" |