| 100% | APE | 3 | Try to sound like |
| 69% | EMULATE | 7 | Try to act like |
| 69% | EMULATE | 7 | Try to be like |
| 69% | EMULATED | 8 | Tried to be like |
| 69% | EMULATES | 8 | Tries to be like |
| 65% | NAY | 3 | Vote to sound like a horse |
| 65% | NAY | 3 | Negative to sound like a horse |
| 64% | LET | 3 | "___ Me Explain," 2017 short film starring Ratoya Banks that sounds like a customer support executive trying to clear things up |
| 64% | YOU | 3 | Second person to sound like a sheep |
| 63% | SWAT | 4 | Try to hit, like a housefly |
| 62% | ZUMBA | 5 | Fitness program named to sound like a Cuban dance |
| 61% | NIPAT | 5 | Try to bite, like a puppy: 2 wds. |
| 60% | NIPSAT | 6 | Tries to bite, like a puppy: 2 wds. |
| 60% | FASTFOOD | 8 | Sounds like you have to eat it quick! |
| 58% | AVOID | 5 | "I try to ___ him like the plague" |
| 58% | BSHARP | 6 | Note that sounds like a direction to think |
| 57% | BECKHAM | 7 | Jess and Jules try to Bend It Like him |
| 57% | PASS | 4 | "Nah, that doesn't sound like fun to me" |
| 57% | DATEBAR | 7 | Baked treat that sounds like a place to meet |
| 57% | TORTE | 5 | Sweet cake that sounds like a crime to eat |
| 57% | CHER | 4 | Star whose name sounds like something nice to do |
| 57% | SHOO | 4 | Sound a scarecrow would like to make? |
| 56% | HIHO | 4 | Cracker brand that sounds like a greeting to a prostitute |
| 56% | BSHARP | 6 | Note that sounds like an order to get with it? |
| 56% | ASIA | 4 | Continent whose name sounds like the answer to 26-Down |
| 56% | AVOID | 5 | Try not to hear, like spoilers |
| 55% | CINQ | 4 | French cardinal that sounds like it's gone to the bottom? |
| 55% | NEAL | 4 | Name that sounds like a way to peacefully protest police brutality |
| 55% | BRR | 3 | Sound from someone who would like to be warmer |
| 54% | BEIRUT | 6 | Foreign capital whose name sounds like a water passage to San Francisco |