| 100% | ENTER | 5 | Stage direction that prompts an actor to go onstage |
| 43% | ENTER | 5 | Stage direction for an actor to join a scene |
| 42% | CUE | 3 | Signal that prompts an actor |
| 37% | EXIT | 4 | Stage direction after an actor's last line |
| 37% | CUE | 3 | Signal for an actor to come onstage |
| 36% | AUDITION | 8 | An actor goes to one to try to get a role |
| 35% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Good-luck wish before an actor takes to the stage |
| 35% | CUING | 5 | Providing prompts to a stage actor |
| 34% | SLEEPER | 7 | Stage show that turns out to be an unexpected hit |
| 34% | DOWN | 4 | Direction an elevator goes from the tenth floor to the lobby |
| 34% | ATTEND | 6 | Go to an event... or a word that ends in "end" |
| 33% | CUE | 3 | Line that an actor waits to hear |
| 33% | CUED | 4 | Prompted an actor |
| 33% | CUING | 5 | Prompting an actor |
| 32% | CAB | 3 | Car that might go to an airport or a convention center |
| 32% | TLDR | 4 | Response to an email that goes on and on, say: Abbr. |
| 32% | AMANA | 5 | ___ Colonies, communal society that went on to form an appliance company |
| 32% | REEL | 4 | Video that an actor might send to an agent |
| 32% | SOLUS | 5 | Stage direction that means "alone" |
| 32% | CUED | 4 | Signaled to go onstage |
| 32% | CUE | 3 | Signal to go onstage |
| 32% | CUES | 4 | Signals to go onstage |
| 31% | PROMPT | 6 | Give a line to an actor on stage |
| 31% | CUED | 4 | Gave the signal to go onstage |
| 30% | ONCUE | 5 | Exactly when prompted, to an actor: 2 wds. |
| 30% | CUE | 3 | Signal for an actor to begin speaking |
| 30% | ASIDE | 5 | Remark from an actor to the audience |
| 30% | ASIDE | 5 | Comment from an actor to the audience |
| 30% | BATH | 4 | Go for an early ___, phrase that originated in rugby that means to stop doing something before you've finished |
| 30% | ASIDE | 5 | Line spoken by an actor to the audience |