| 100% | XANTHIPPE | 9 | Wife of Socrates, whose name has come to mean any quarrelsome woman |
| 55% | LOTHARIO | 8 | Character in 1702 Nicholas Rowe stage play The Fair Penitent whose name has come to mean any rake or libertine |
| 36% | YENTE | 5 | Yiddish name that has come to mean “gossip” |
| 31% | THEOPHANE | 9 | Figure in Greek mythology whose name roughly means “manifestation of God” and who gave birth to the ram with the golden fleece |
| 30% | BABA | 4 | Dessert whose name means "peasant woman" |
| 30% | OAR | 3 | Band whose name has nothing to do with rowing |
| 29% | JUDO | 4 | Sport whose name means "way of gentleness" |
| 29% | HATSHEPSUT | 10 | Pharaoh whose name means “first among noble women” |
| 29% | ONO | 3 | Hawaiian fish whose name means "good to eat" |
| 29% | OTOES | 5 | Indians whose name means "lovers of sexual pleasure" |
| 29% | BABYLON | 7 | Ancient city whose name means "Gate of God" |
| 29% | LHASA | 5 | Capital whose name means "place of the gods" |
| 29% | KIA | 3 | Carmaker whose name means "arise out of Asia" |
| 29% | ECLAIR | 6 | Treat whose name means, literally, "flash of lightning" |
| 29% | PAKISTAN | 8 | Country whose name means "land of the pure" |
| 29% | AQUAVIT | 7 | Scandinavian liquor whose name means "water of life" |
| 29% | NINTENDO | 8 | Company whose name roughly means "leave luck to heaven" |
| 29% | DODGERS | 7 | The Los Angeles ___, whose name means to avoid something |
| 29% | APE | 3 | Large animal whose name also means to imitate someone |
| 29% | YEN | 3 | Currency whose name comes from a word meaning "round" |
| 29% | YOLATENGO | 9 | Indie band whose name means, literally, "I have it" |
| 29% | LHASA | 5 | Asian capital whose name means "place of the gods" |
| 29% | LHASA | 5 | Capital city whose name means "place of the gods" |
| 29% | KAMLOOPS | 8 | BC city whose name means meeting of the waters |
| 29% | KAMPALA | 7 | African city whose name means hill of the impala |
| 29% | ONEIDA | 6 | Nation whose name means “People of the Standing Stone” |
| 29% | MOOSE | 5 | Animal whose name means "eater of bark" in Algonquian |
| 29% | DARESSALAAM | 11 | East African city whose name means "house of peace" |
| 29% | HILO | 4 | City whose name seems to consist of two opposites |
| 29% | HOSE | 4 | Legwear whose name anagrams to a piece of footwear |