| 100% | QUESERASERA | 11 | Subtitle of #48 in AFI's "100 Years...100 Songs" |
| 56% | PLAYITSAM | 9 | Start of #28 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes |
| 45% | YOURESOVAIN | 11 | Carly Simon song that was in the Top 10 on the "Billboard" Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1973 (3 wds.) |
| 45% | CROCODILEROCK | 13 | Elton John song that was in the Top 10 on the "Billboard" Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1973 (2 wds.) |
| 45% | LETSGETITON | 11 | Marvin Gaye song that was in the Top 10 on the "Billboard" Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1973 (4 wds.) |
| 44% | YOADRIAN | 8 | #80 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes |
| 43% | UNCHAINEDMELODY | 15 | Iconic song on AFI's 100 list (recorded 1500+ times) named for a '55 film you've likely never heard of |
| 43% | ACEOFBASE | 9 | Starting in 1993, Swedish pop band with a song in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 48 consecutive weeks: 3 wds. |
| 42% | WOMAN | 5 | Kesha song that features in the final scene of this year's film "Birds of Prey" |
| 42% | HAL | 3 | Villain #13 on AFI's "100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains" |
| 42% | NAOMI | 5 | ___ Smalls, named last year as one of New York magazine's top 100 Most Powerful Drag Queens in America |
| 42% | LII | 3 | Number of weeks in Julius Caesar's year? |
| 42% | WONDERFUL | 9 | How Andy Williams describes Christmas in a 1963 song? "It's the Most ___ Time of the Year" |
| 41% | SYNE | 4 | Last word in the first song of the year |
| 41% | GLEE | 4 | Fox series that was the source of 80 Billboard Hot 100 songs in 2010 |
| 40% | NINETOFIVE | 10 | One of AFI's 100 Funniest Movies (1980) |
| 40% | NORMANLEAR | 10 | Producer in the Television Hall of Fame who turned 100 years old yesterday (2 wds.) |
| 40% | DOG | 3 | President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these |
| 39% | CASEYATTHEBAT | 13 | Poem subtitled "A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" |
| 39% | RAP | 3 | Genre for only two Song of the Year winners in Grammy history |
| 39% | JOE | 3 | "Little ___ the Wrangler," classic western song that's in the Top 100 Western songs of all time fitting for a "National Day of the Cowboy" playlist |
| 39% | ROSEBUD | 7 | The highest-rated one-word quote on AFI's "100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes" list |
| 38% | AULD | 4 | Word in a traditional New Year's Eve song |
| 38% | AULD | 4 | Word in a New Year's song |
| 38% | SYNE | 4 | End of a New Year's song |
| 38% | ACRE | 4 | One of 100 in Pooh's woods |
| 38% | MOST | 4 | "It's the ___ Wonderful Time of the Year" (Christmas song) |
| 38% | PEACOCK | 7 | Recipient of Argus's 100 eyes, in myth |
| 38% | XXXXX | 5 | Any of 100 in Dante's "Divine Comedy" |
| 38% | CVII | 4 | Year in the middle of Trajan’s reign |