| 100% | EMBARRASS | 9 | Village in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, named by French lumberjacks, after the French word that means "to obstruct" |
| 37% | APE | 3 | Word that means to imitate someone and is also the name of a primate |
| 35% | NOTRE | 5 | French word that becomes its own opposite by changing the first letter to V |
| 35% | BIENVENUE | 9 | Word that might be in the introduction to a French textbook |
| 34% | PARIS | 5 | "From hell to breakfast in ___," idiom with the French capital that means "go through a wide range of experiences" |
| 33% | ILOG | 4 | Municipality surrounded by the Hilabangan River and named after the Tagalog word for river in the Philippines |
| 33% | DEAL | 4 | Word that appears twice in the name of a game show hosted by Howie Mandel |
| 33% | LEROI | 5 | Name that means "the king" in French |
| 32% | ADIEU | 5 | French word that means the same as "au revoir" |
| 32% | NORA | 4 | Name that can fill in the blank in ME___H to form a word |
| 32% | CLOVES | 6 | Herbs named after the French word for nails |
| 32% | MAROON | 6 | Color named after the French word for "chestnut" |
| 32% | PUCE | 4 | Color named after the French word for "flea" |
| 32% | NEE | 3 | Word that means "born" in French |
| 32% | GALEN | 5 | Township in Wayne County, NY, chartered in 1812, traversed by the Erie Canal and named after an ancient Roman physician |
| 32% | ALLUDE | 6 | Refer to something indirectly, from the Latin word that means "to play" |
| 31% | URSA | 4 | Word that means "bear" in two constellation names |
| 31% | YES | 3 | What the French word "oui" means in English |
| 31% | REPONDEZ | 8 | French word that's the R in RSVP |
| 31% | ROUGHANDREADY | 13 | Census-designated place in Nevada County, California, named after a mining company that first settled in the area in 1849: 3 wds. |
| 31% | FAUXAMIS | 8 | Words in a foreign language that bear a deceptive resemblance to those in another, like the French "décevoir" ("disappoint") and the English "deceive" |
| 31% | YSER | 4 | WWI battle named after the river where the German Army was obstructed by opening sluices and flooding land to the west |
| 31% | NERD | 4 | Word coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo" that's now used to refer to stereotypically studious sorts |
| 30% | CEDILLA | 7 | Character such as that placed under the c in French name Francois that softens the sound from that of k to s |
| 30% | NIA | 3 | Name that becomes another name by adding So to the start |
| 30% | YAHOO | 5 | Word coined by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" that's now also the name of a popular email service |
| 30% | PSALM | 5 | Biblical word that means “song sung to the harp” |
| 30% | COAL | 4 | ___ car, red train card in the board game "Ticket to Ride" that is named after a fossil fuel |
| 30% | UNCERTAIN | 9 | City in Harrison County, Texas, that is named so because it was the entry made by residents in the original application for township |