| 100% | SYLLABLES | 9 | They break up the pronunciation of a word |
| 52% | SCARIFIER | 9 | Spiked tool breaks up the surface of a lawn |
| 49% | DISPERSAL | 9 | The breaking up of a group or crowd |
| 48% | SYLLABLES | 9 | The units of sound that words are broken up into |
| 46% | SHAGGY | 6 | Rapper who made up the word "boombastic" in a 1995 song of the same name |
| 46% | HANSON | 6 | Group that made up the word "MMMBop" in a 1997 song of the same name |
| 44% | XXXXXXXX | 8 | Break up the soil, in a way |
| 43% | HALFTIME | 8 | Break in the middle of a match |
| 43% | DEFINE | 6 | Describe the meaning of a word |
| 43% | DEFINING | 8 | Explaining the meaning of a word |
| 43% | LIVE | 4 | Word seen in the upper-right corner of TV screens during breaking news stories |
| 42% | STOKE | 5 | Shake up the coals of a fire |
| 42% | SEAM | 4 | Line up the side of a dress |
| 42% | SLIT | 4 | Cut up the side of a skirt |
| 42% | VAR | 3 | Spelling of a word that's not the usual: Abbr. |
| 42% | HALFTIME | 8 | A break in the middle of a game |
| 42% | WISE | 4 | A word to the ___ (good piece of advice) |
| 42% | CHALLENGE | 9 | Question the legitimacy of a word, in Scrabble |
| 41% | ANTONYM | 7 | A word whose meaning is the opposite of another |
| 41% | DIAL | 4 | Word before "up" to mean a form of internet access used in the '90s |
| 41% | HARROW | 6 | Breaking up of soil using machine of the same name |
| 41% | PRONOUNCE | 9 | Make the sound of a word in a particular way |
| 40% | PANGEA | 6 | It broke up in the age of dinosaurs |
| 40% | SOFTENUP | 8 | Break down the resistance of, as a customer |
| 40% | REDRUM | 6 | Backwards spelling of a nasty word in The Shining |
| 40% | PRE | 3 | Affix at the front of a word meaning "before" |
| 40% | GRASS | 5 | What makes up the green cover of a field |
| 40% | ENAMEL | 6 | Tooth __ makes up the visible part of a tooth |
| 40% | VOWELS | 6 | The word "America" has four of them |
| 40% | TEN | 3 | Word signaling the end of a match |