| 100% | SENORA | 6 | Title usually abbreviated to its first, fifth and sixth letters |
| 65% | SENOR | 5 | Title typically abbreviated to its first and last letters |
| 47% | ETCETERA | 8 | Latin phrase often abbreviated to its first three letters |
| 37% | ARE | 3 | Verb sometimes abbreviated to its central letter |
| 37% | SRTA | 4 | Abbreviated title without the second, third, fourth and sixth letters |
| 37% | ETCETERA | 8 | Phrase typically shortened to its first three letters |
| 36% | ARE | 3 | Word often abbreviated to its middle letter, in texts |
| 36% | ARE | 3 | Word often abbreviated to its middle letter in texts |
| 36% | PERMANENTWAVE | 13 | *Salon job often shortened to its first four letters |
| 36% | OREO | 4 | Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters |
| 35% | AROMANTIC | 9 | Orientation whose name is often shortened to its first three letters |
| 35% | TARPAULIN | 9 | Covering whose name is often shortened to its first four letters |
| 34% | ARE | 3 | Verb sometimes abbreviated to just its middle letter |
| 34% | BUMPS | 5 | Raises, likewise without its first and third letter |
| 34% | TRE | 3 | Italian number whose letters are the first, third and fifth letters of its English equivalent |
| 34% | EASE | 4 | Word that sounds like its first and last letters |
| 33% | APIECEOFCAKE | 12 | "Nothing to it!," and what each circled letter literally is? |
| 33% | EMU | 3 | Bird that's a primate minus its first and last letters |
| 33% | KATIE | 5 | Woman's nickname that sounds like its first and third letters |
| 33% | YAHOO | 5 | Its first name was Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web |
| 32% | STLEO | 5 | Fifth-century pope, the first to receive the title "the Great" |
| 32% | WHO | 3 | Question that becomes another question when its first letter is moved to its end |
| 32% | MISTER | 6 | Title usually abbreviated |
| 32% | ERIC | 4 | Name that becomes a grain if you move its first letter to the end |
| 31% | TINA | 4 | Girl's name that becomes a contraction when its first and last letters are switched |
| 31% | AYE | 3 | Word that keeps the same meaning if you move its first letter to the end |
| 31% | SCAMS | 5 | Con jobs, or, when broken after its first letter, a hint to the starred answers |
| 31% | AVIS | 4 | Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end |
| 31% | AVIS | 4 | Commercial name that becomes another commercial name if you move its first letter to the end |
| 31% | OLEG | 4 | Man's name that becomes a toy when its first letter is moved to the end |