| 100% | ELSE | 4 | Word for an alternative |
| 69% | UNLESS | 6 | Word introducing an alternative |
| 69% | VENERABLE | 9 | Word for an archdeacon |
| 68% | BEHAVE | 6 | Word for an unruly child |
| 68% | PROTEM | 6 | Words for an interim official |
| 67% | BRAT | 4 | Word for an obnoxious babysitting charge |
| 66% | PILOT | 5 | Word for an aviator or carnivorous fish |
| 66% | THESPIAN | 8 | Another word for an actor |
| 66% | VERB | 4 | Grammatical word for an action |
| 66% | FLAT | 4 | British word for an apartment |
| 66% | NOUN | 4 | Any word for an object |
| 65% | CARNIVORE | 9 | Word for an animal that eats mostly meat |
| 65% | OSSIA | 5 | Music term for an alternative passage |
| 65% | BOUTIQUE | 8 | French word for an exclusive shop |
| 65% | SIR | 3 | Private's word for an officer |
| 65% | MENSCH | 6 | Yiddish word for an upstanding person |
| 65% | ALEXA | 5 | Wake word for an Amazon device |
| 65% | DADA | 4 | Common first word for an infant |
| 64% | ACU | 3 | Prefix for an alternative therapy involving needles |
| 64% | ACU | 3 | Prefix with "puncture" for an alternative therapy |
| 64% | DIRE | 4 | Another word for an extremely urgent situation |
| 64% | ERSATZ | 6 | German word for an artificial, substitute thing |
| 63% | ASS | 3 | Word for an undomesticated donkey which might elicit juvenile giggles |
| 63% | TABLET | 6 | Solid medicine form, or word for an iPad |
| 62% | ACU | 3 | Prefix with "puncture" for an alternative therapy involving needles |
| 62% | LASCAR | 6 | Outmoded word for an Indian or SE Asian sailor |
| 61% | YES | 3 | "Yeah" is an alternative for |
| 61% | NERD | 4 | Word for an introverted intellectual that was first used by Dr. Seuss |
| 61% | DIN | 3 | Kipling's "Gunga ___" (also the word for an annoying noise) |
| 61% | DESPERADO | 9 | Popular Eagles song, named after the word for an outlaw |