| 100% | COUNTERED | 9 | Spoke in opposition to a proposal |
| 60% | OBJECTS | 7 | Comes out in opposition to a plan |
| 52% | TLDR | 4 | Short response to a long post, in text speak |
| 51% | SIGN | 4 | Speak to a deaf person, in a way |
| 50% | OWE | 3 | Be in a hole, so to speak |
| 50% | RAREGEM | 7 | One in a million, so to speak |
| 50% | ATBAT | 5 | In position to make a round trip, so to speak |
| 50% | BOAST | 5 | To speak of in a proud manner about some achievement |
| 50% | HAVEN | 5 | Safe port in a storm, so to speak |
| 50% | UNMUTES | 7 | Prepares to speak, in a modern meeting |
| 49% | ISUBMIT | 7 | Lead-in to a proposal |
| 49% | FLOOR | 5 | Right to speak in a legislature |
| 49% | SHY | 3 | Not likely to speak up in a meeting, say |
| 49% | LURED | 5 | Dangled a carrot in front of, so to speak |
| 49% | ASIDES | 6 | Lines spoken directly to the audience in a play |
| 49% | ABCS | 4 | Something taught in a 101 class, so to speak |
| 49% | MISFIT | 6 | Square peg in a round hole, so to speak |
| 49% | AGAINST | 7 | In opposition to |
| 49% | CONTRA | 6 | In opposition to |
| 49% | ANTI | 4 | In opposition to |
| 49% | ATHWART | 7 | In opposition to |
| 48% | SOCUTE | 6 | Words spoken in response to seeing a friend's new baby, maybe |
| 48% | SOLILOQUY | 9 | Lines of a play spoken to no one in particular |
| 48% | UNMUTE | 6 | Prepare to speak in a Zoom call, say |
| 47% | ANTINOMIC | 9 | In opposition to one another |
| 47% | AFOUL | 5 | In opposition to, with "of" |
| 47% | SMEE | 4 | "Man who stabbed, so to speak, without offence," in a 1911 novel |
| 46% | COUNTERED | 9 | Acted in opposition to |
| 46% | NAYSAYS | 7 | Stands in opposition to |
| 46% | SAYYES | 6 | Agree to a proposal |