| 100% | NASTY | 5 | The ___ Boys (WWE tag team with a mean-sounding name) |
| 49% | SAUBER | 6 | Swiss Formula One team with a name that means "clean" in German |
| 48% | SIMONSAYS | 9 | Playground game with a boy's name in the title |
| 44% | NINERS | 6 | San Francisco-based athletes with a team name inspired by the California Gold Rush, for short |
| 44% | ASTROS | 6 | Team with a mascot named Orbit |
| 44% | RAVENS | 6 | Team with a mascot named Poe |
| 44% | XZIBIT | 6 | Rapper with an MTV show … whose name sounds like a word meaning "show" |
| 43% | ROLL | 4 | "Tootsee ___," 1994 song with a name which sounds like a popular candy that popularized the eponymous dance move |
| 43% | SLIMEY | 6 | Oscar the Grouch's pet worm, whose name sounds like a word meaning "oozy" |
| 43% | MAPLELEAFS | 10 | Hockey team with a patriotic name |
| 42% | EAGLES | 6 | NFL team with a mascot named Swoop |
| 42% | SENATORS | 8 | Ottawa ___, Canadian ice hockey team in the NHL whose name sounds like a group of politicians |
| 42% | KEKEPALMER | 10 | "Turnt Up With the Taylors" star whose first name has a repeated "ee" sound: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ASTROS | 6 | M.L.B. team with a mascot named Orbit |
| 41% | STORM | 5 | Seattle WNBA team with a weather-related name |
| 41% | ACES | 4 | WNBA team with a card-related name |
| 40% | HOPS | 4 | Hillsboro ___, minor-league baseball team with a mascot named Barley |
| 40% | NAVAJO | 6 | Arizona county with a national monument of the same name |
| 40% | INDEX | 5 | List often scanned with a finger of the same name |
| 40% | MIR | 3 | Space station with a name meaning "peace" |
| 40% | EPISODEI | 8 | Film with a boy named Anakin, familiarly |
| 40% | FLAMES | 6 | Calgary ___, Canadian ice hockey team in the NHL with a fiery-sounding name |
| 39% | TNT | 3 | Cable channel with a name that sounds explosive |
| 39% | BONITOS | 7 | Fish with a Spanish name meaning little pretties |
| 39% | BEAU | 4 | Bridges brother with a name that means "handsome" |
| 39% | ORANGE | 6 | Fruit with a color of the same name |
| 39% | LAO | 3 | People with a language of the same name |
| 39% | SOPRANOS | 8 | Crime drama with a mobster named Tony, The __ |
| 39% | JOHNNYCASH | 10 | Country singer with the 1969 crossover hit "A Boy Named Sue": 2 wds. |
| 39% | MOSC O WIDAHO | 13 | City in the Pacific Northwest with a Russian-sounding name |