| 100% | CALLING | 7 | Trying to reach on the phone |
| 79% | CALLERID | 8 | It tells people who's trying to reach them on the phone: 2 wds., abbr. |
| 60% | CLIMB | 5 | Try to reach the top |
| 59% | ONHOLD | 6 | Waiting to talk on the phone |
| 59% | YELL | 4 | Try to reach the hard-of-hearing? |
| 58% | PAGE | 4 | Try to find on the road, say |
| 58% | RAN | 3 | Tried to reach the finishing ribbon first, perhaps |
| 56% | BUYUP | 5 | Try to corner the market on |
| 55% | HELD | 4 | Listened to Muzak on the phone, maybe |
| 55% | BEGS | 4 | Tries to make bread on the sidewalk? |
| 55% | ITSME | 5 | First line on the phone to someone you know well |
| 53% | CLIMB | 5 | Go up, like someone trying to reach the top of a mountain |
| 53% | RETOOK | 6 | Tried to improve one's score on, as the SATs |
| 52% | AERATEFREIGHT | 13 | Try to cure the effects of a skunk invasion on a semi? |
| 51% | WENTSOLO | 8 | Tried to make it on one's own without the band (2 wds.) |
| 51% | IMNOTHERE | 9 | Message whispered to someone on the phone with an obnoxious caller |
| 50% | CHANGING | 8 | __ room, the place to try on clothes |
| 49% | ICEICEBABY | 10 | First single by a rapper to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 |
| 49% | LAM | 3 | On the ___ (trying to avoid the police) |
| 49% | LETITGO | 7 | First Disney song to reach the top 5 on Billboard in the 21st century |
| 49% | SKIP | 4 | What pebble throwers on the river bank often try to make the stones do |
| 49% | SEEKS | 5 | Tries to reach |
| 48% | POPSOCKET | 9 | Expanding phone grip to stick on the back |
| 48% | ATBAT | 5 | Trying to reach base |
| 48% | TAP | 3 | It bugs people on the phone |
| 48% | CORD | 4 | One may be on the phone |
| 48% | APPS | 4 | They're mostly on the phone |
| 48% | CALL | 4 | Ring someone up on the phone |
| 48% | HOLD | 4 | Wait for somebody on the phone |
| 48% | STOODONONESTOES | 15 | Tried to reach higher |