| 100% | CAPRA | 5 | Three-time Best Director in the 1930s |
| 80% | CAPRA | 5 | Three-time Best Director of the 1930s |
| 72% | GRETAGARBO | 10 | Three-time Best Actress nominee in the 1930s |
| 55% | ROBERTALTMAN | 12 | Five-time Best Director nominee who said "All of the best things in my films are mistakes" |
| 53% | STRIKEOUT | 9 | Whiff three times in the batter's box |
| 53% | ETCETERA | 8 | In The King and I, the king says this three times |
| 53% | MCENROE | 7 | John who won Wimbledon three times in the 1980s |
| 53% | NOR | 3 | Word used three times in the Postal Service creed |
| 52% | BROKEBACKMOUNTAIN | 17 | Couple in the 21st century with Best Director Oscar winners |
| 52% | NEMO | 4 | Titular character in the best-selling DVD of all time |
| 52% | ELOI | 4 | People in the H. G. Wells novel "The Time Machine" |
| 51% | ACES | 4 | The best three in a three-of-a-kind |
| 51% | ELS | 3 | Pair seen three times in "All's Well That Ends Well" |
| 51% | ILOVEYOU | 8 | Lyric sung three times in a row in the Beatles' "Michelle" |
| 51% | ELOI | 4 | Morlocks' counterparts in the H.G. Wells novel "The Time Machine" |
| 51% | NOR | 3 | Word repeated three times in the United States Postal Service creed |
| 51% | YES | 3 | Word spoken three times in the last seven words of “Ulysses” |
| 51% | CAPRA | 5 | Three-time Best Director |
| 51% | FOSSE | 5 | Only Best Director Oscar/Tony/Emmy winner in the same year (1973) |
| 51% | MARIO | 5 | Main character in the best-selling video game franchise of all time |
| 50% | NOR | 3 | Word found three times in the unofficial U.S. Postal Service motto |
| 50% | ELOI | 4 | The oppressed race in H.G Wells' "The Time Machine" |
| 50% | MORLOCKS | 8 | Brutish workers in Wells's The Time Machine |
| 50% | RHO | 3 | Letter repeated three times in one of the "Revenge of the Nerds" fraternities |
| 50% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 |
| 49% | RHO | 3 | When written three times, fraternity in "Revenge of the Nerds" |
| 49% | MORLOCKS | 8 | Eloi hunters in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine |
| 49% | THY | 3 | Word used three times in the first four lines of the Lord's Prayer |
| 49% | ELOI | 4 | Race of decadent people in the 1895 H G Wells novel The Time Machine |
| 48% | LASTDAY | 7 | Time for the best deals, maybe, in a going-out-of-business sale |