| 100% | HILT | 4 | Sword or dagger handle (rhymes with "silt") |
| 67% | HILT | 4 | Sword or dagger handle |
| 56% | HILT | 4 | Handle of a sword or dagger |
| 51% | SIDEARM | 7 | Sword or dagger |
| 50% | HILT | 4 | Sword or dagger part |
| 43% | ATRANDOM | 8 | With no rhyme or reason |
| 42% | IRIS | 4 | Eye part that rhymes with "virus" or "Cyrus" |
| 42% | SCONE | 5 | Pastry that can rhyme with "cone" or "gone" |
| 41% | ERR | 3 | Verb that can rhyme with either "bare" or "burr" |
| 41% | MAN | 3 | Word with handle or hunt |
| 41% | SCHEME | 6 | Word with color or rhyme |
| 40% | WIELD | 5 | Hold or handle, as a sword |
| 40% | DUELS | 5 | Face-offs with guns or swords |
| 40% | WIELD | 5 | Handle a weapon or tool with skill and ease |
| 39% | TUMBLER | 7 | Drinking glass with no stem or handles |
| 39% | DUEL | 4 | Contest with swords or pistols |
| 39% | NICHE | 5 | Adjective that rhymes with "sheesh" or "pitch," depending on who you ask |
| 38% | BILE | 4 | Anger or bitterness, rhymes with pile |
| 38% | DEEM | 4 | Consider or judge, rhymes with seem |
| 38% | HASTY | 5 | Quickly or hurried; rhymes with tasty |
| 38% | CARE | 4 | Show concern, or handle a fragile parcel with this |
| 38% | HANDBAGS | 8 | Women's purses with handles or straps for carrying |
| 38% | AMPULLA | 7 | A round Roman flask or bottle with two handles |
| 37% | FLUSHING | 8 | Type of toilet with water and a button or handle |
| 37% | QUATRAIN | 8 | Four lines poem or stanza with a set rhyme pattern |
| 37% | SCABBARDS | 9 | Sheaths for a sword, dagger or bayonet |
| 36% | OMAN | 4 | Arab country with a dagger and two swords on its flag |
| 36% | UTOPIA | 6 | Ideal place or island, rhymes with myopia |
| 36% | THRIVE | 6 | To prosper or excel, rhymes with alive |
| 36% | REGAL | 5 | Dignified or like royalty; rhymes with legal |