| 100% | AXE | 3 | Tool whose name can also mean "fire from a job" |
| 75% | AXE | 3 | Tool whose name is also slang meaning "fire from a job" |
| 72% | AXE | 3 | Tool that can also mean "fire from a job" |
| 59% | YAK | 3 | Animal whose name can also mean "talk a lot" |
| 58% | ACE | 3 | Card whose name can also mean a person uninterested in romance |
| 56% | BADGER | 6 | Animal whose name can also be a verb meaning "nag" |
| 56% | APE | 3 | Animal whose name can also be a verb meaning "mimic" |
| 51% | CARP | 4 | Fish whose name can also mean "complain" |
| 51% | SAGE | 4 | Herb whose name can also mean "intelligent" |
| 51% | PINE | 4 | Tree whose name can also mean "yearn" |
| 51% | RIB | 3 | Body part whose name can also mean "tease" |
| 51% | APE | 3 | Animal whose name can also mean "big brute" |
| 49% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird whose name can also mean two under par in golf |
| 48% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name can also be a full sentence |
| 44% | YEN | 3 | Currency whose name comes from a word meaning "round" |
| 43% | LETGO | 5 | Fire from a job |
| 43% | TERMINATE | 9 | Fire from a job |
| 43% | AXES | 4 | Fires from a job |
| 43% | AXED | 4 | Fired from a job |
| 43% | RACEME | 6 | Flower cluster whose name can also be read as a challenge |
| 42% | APE | 3 | Primate whose name is also a verb meaning "mimic" |
| 42% | SACK | 4 | Fire from a job, informally |
| 42% | ETNA | 4 | Italian place whose name comes from a Greek word meaning "I burn" |
| 42% | AXED | 4 | Fired from a job, in slang |
| 41% | SACKED | 6 | Fired from a job in the uk |
| 41% | OLATHE | 6 | Fourth largest city in Kansas, US, whose name derives from a Shawnee word meaning beautiful |
| 40% | ION | 3 | Cable channel whose name is also a word meaning "charged particle" |
| 40% | AXE | 3 | Get the ___ (be fired from a job) |
| 40% | AXE | 3 | Gets the ___ (is fired from a job) |
| 40% | AXE | 3 | Got the ___ (was fired from a job) |