| 100% | UNSAID | 6 | Thought of but not shared |
| 51% | UNSPOKEN | 8 | Thought, but not said |
| 49% | ASSUME | 6 | Think but not know |
| 49% | EGOTISM | 7 | Not thinking of others |
| 48% | TERSE | 5 | Short but not sweet, of few words |
| 47% | AMSTERDAM | 9 | Largest Dutch city, but not seat of government |
| 47% | LOWERCASELETTER | 15 | The "e," but not the "B," of eBay |
| 47% | NMGND | 5 | Not yet thought of |
| 46% | TIE | 3 | Rare, but not impossible, outcome of a Scrabble game |
| 46% | INANASIDE | 9 | Not as part of the main thought |
| 46% | IMPLICIT | 8 | Not stated, but understood because of context |
| 46% | VULCANMINDMELD | 14 | Sharing of thoughts on a TV show? |
| 46% | FOURSTAR | 8 | High quality hotel, but not quite five out of five |
| 45% | INORGANIC | 9 | Not animal or vegetable but composed of minerals |
| 45% | ALIENTO | 7 | Not consistent with, as a way of thinking |
| 45% | PARALEGAL | 9 | Works with law but not in the level of a lawyer |
| 45% | TRAGIC | 6 | Like "Hamlet" and "Julius Caesar," but not "A Comedy of Errors" |
| 44% | LIE | 3 | Invention that's not thought highly of |
| 44% | ISLE | 4 | Of Man, but not of woman |
| 44% | LUANDA | 6 | Capital of Angola: not Rwanda but __ |
| 44% | IOWA | 4 | "I thought of a joke about ___, but it's too corny" (groaner) |
| 44% | IMO | 3 | Start of some thoughts shared on social media |
| 43% | ANT | 3 | Insect seen in the word "Antarctica" but not on the continent of Antarctica |
| 43% | INLAND | 6 | Not on the coast, but in the middle of a country |
| 43% | BEGINNING | 9 | Doubt is not the end of wisdom, but the __ |
| 43% | TIS | 3 | "___ midnight, but small thoughts have I of sleep": Coleridge |
| 42% | HAHA | 4 | “You think you’re funny but you’re really not” |
| 41% | HARDG | 5 | Feature of Greece but not Germany |
| 41% | LLAMA | 5 | Source of wool but not lanolin |
| 41% | SYS | 3 | Part of CBS but not PBS |