| 100% | SHES | 4 | Song title word before "Like the Wind" or "Got a Way" |
| 50% | HEY | 3 | Song title word before "Joe" (Jimi Hendrix) or after "Ho" (the Lumineers) |
| 49% | LETIT | 5 | Song title words before "Be" or "Ride" |
| 49% | LETIT | 5 | Song title words before "Be" or "Go" |
| 49% | BAD | 3 | Word before "Habit" in a Steve Lacy song title or "Habits" in an Ed Sheeran song title |
| 46% | WAVE | 4 | Ocean-related word before and after "on" for the title of a Pat Green song, mentioning a surfer's ride |
| 46% | ONLY | 4 | Title word before "You," "U" or "Yesterday" in hit songs |
| 44% | SAD | 3 | Word before "Eyes" or "Songs" in song titles |
| 44% | HEY | 3 | Word before "Jude" or "Ya!" in song titles |
| 44% | TEACHME | 7 | Words before "Tonight" in a 1954 song title |
| 44% | BAD | 3 | Word before "Habit," "Romance," or "Guy" in song titles |
| 44% | LAY | 3 | Word before or after "Lady" in a Dylan title |
| 43% | THESE | 5 | Word before "Days," "Dreams," or "Eyes" in hit song titles |
| 43% | IDONOT | 6 | Words before "Hook Up" in a Kelly Clarkson song title |
| 43% | LYRICS | 6 | The words or libretto to a song |
| 42% | VIVA | 4 | Word before "Las Vegas" or "la Vida" in song titles |
| 41% | BAD | 3 | Word in a movie title before Moms, Teacher, or Santa |
| 41% | SHIPOOPI | 8 | The Music Man song whose title is a nonsense word |
| 41% | PRONOUNCE | 9 | The correct way to say or sound out a word |
| 41% | BEING | 5 | Title word before "John Malkovich" or "the Ricardos" |
| 41% | ICANSEE | 7 | Song title words before "for Miles" |
| 41% | HOT | 3 | Like summer, or a word before "spring" |
| 40% | TEENIE | 6 | Word in the title of a song about a polka-dot bikini |
| 40% | BLACKBIRD | 9 | Dark-feathered flyer, or the title of a Beatles song |
| 40% | THUNDERSTRUCK | 13 | 1990 AC/DC song with a weather word in the title |
| 40% | BARRACUDA | 9 | Fish with sharp teeth, or the title of a Heart song |
| 39% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like a nonfunctioning vending machine, or what the circled letters are, in two ways |
| 39% | OUI | 3 | French 101 word that's also the title of a Jeremih song |
| 39% | WINDOFCHANGE | 12 | 1991 Scorpions song with a weather word in the title (3 wds.) |
| 39% | DANTES | 6 | Title word before “Inferno” or “Peak” |