| 100% | WACO | 4 | U.S. city whose name is composed of two state abbreviations |
| 53% | OREIDA | 6 | Food brand whose name is a combination of two state abbreviations |
| 52% | HILO | 4 | City whose first two letters are its state's postal abbreviation |
| 51% | SEATAC | 6 | Northwestern city whose name is a portmanteau of two neighboring cities |
| 51% | MALAWI | 6 | African nation whose name consists of three U.S. state postal abbreviations |
| 51% | MANDARIN | 8 | Language whose name consists of four consecutive U.S. state postal abbreviations |
| 50% | OCALA | 5 | Florida city whose name ends with two state postal abbreviations |
| 49% | OREIDA | 6 | Food brand whose name is a portmanteau of two state names |
| 49% | TAMIAMI | 7 | Florida suburb whose name is a portmanteau of two major cities |
| 48% | LIMAOHIO | 8 | U.S. city whose name is pronounced differently from its foreign namesake |
| 48% | ARKANSAS | 8 | State whose name is its own abbreviation plus the name of another state |
| 47% | TANZANIA | 8 | East African nation whose name is a meld of its two former states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
| 47% | ALASKA | 6 | Only U.S. state whose name can be typed on one row of a keyboard |
| 46% | HILO | 4 | U.S. city whose name looks like a form of poker |
| 46% | LAALAA | 6 | Teletubby whose name is composed of a repeating syllable |
| 45% | NORTH | 5 | Start of two U.S. state names |
| 45% | ONE | 3 | Number of states whose last two letters are its own postal abbreviation |
| 45% | HILO | 4 | City whose state's postal code is half its name |
| 45% | XERES | 5 | City whose name was the source of the word "sherry" |
| 45% | SOLID | 5 | State whose last two letters are the postal abbreviation for a different kind of state |
| 44% | BASRA | 5 | Arab city whose name is an anagram of ARABS |
| 44% | NENA | 4 | "99 Luftballons" singer whose name is an anagram of two of Henry VIII's wives |
| 43% | AGRA | 4 | Indian city whose name is an anagram of some Indian music |
| 43% | XERES | 5 | Spanish city whose name is the source of the word sherry |
| 43% | NOME | 4 | Alaskan city whose name is an anagram of a Pixar fish |
| 43% | HILO | 4 | City whose name seems to consist of two opposites |
| 43% | BASRA | 5 | City whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS |
| 43% | OMAHA | 5 | Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections |
| 42% | WACO | 4 | U.S. radio station whose call letters spell the name of its city |
| 42% | CISCO | 5 | Fortune 100 company whose name is the last two syllables of the city near where it was founded |