| 100% | HOMONYM | 7 | Word sounding like another but with a different meaning |
| 63% | HETERONYM | 9 | Word spelled identically to another but with a different pronunciation and meaning |
| 45% | ERIE | 4 | Lake that sounds like a word meaning "scary" |
| 45% | PEAR | 4 | Fruit that sounds like a word meaning "couple" |
| 45% | ERIE | 4 | Lake that sounds like a word meaning "spooky" |
| 45% | CHILI | 5 | Hot food that sounds like a word meaning "cold" |
| 45% | LOKI | 4 | God whose name sounds like a word meaning "understated" |
| 45% | ERIE | 4 | Great Lake that sounds like a word meaning "spooky" |
| 45% | ARRID | 5 | Antiperspirant whose name sounds like a word meaning "dry" |
| 44% | LIV | 3 | Woman's nickname that sounds like a word meaning "exist" |
| 44% | SAAB | 4 | Swedish auto company name that sounds like a word meaning "cry" |
| 44% | ERIE | 4 | Canadian-American lake whose name sounds like a word meaning "spooky" |
| 43% | NME | 3 | British music magazine whose name sounds like a word that means foe |
| 43% | FLO | 3 | Woman's name that sounds like a word meaning "move like a river" |
| 42% | SLIMEY | 6 | Oscar the Grouch's pet worm, whose name sounds like a word meaning "oozy" |
| 42% | TRES | 4 | French 101 word or, with a different meaning, Spanish 101 word |
| 41% | PARONYM | 7 | Word derived from another that has a related meaning, like "wisdom" from "wise" |
| 41% | EYE | 3 | With 5-Across, word that looks like it would sound similarly but doesn't |
| 41% | XZIBIT | 6 | Rapper with an MTV show … whose name sounds like a word meaning "show" |
| 41% | EEK | 3 | Small Alaskan community that sounds like a cartoon shriek, but whose name means "two eyes" in Yupik |
| 40% | HOMONYM | 7 | Word with same spelling but different meaning |
| 40% | SERPENTS | 8 | Like snakes but with a scarier name |
| 39% | PUN | 3 | Joke that plays with different meanings of a word |
| 38% | INCITE | 6 | This word sounds like insight, it means encourage |
| 38% | ELONGATE | 8 | Word meaning "stretch" that sounds like a scandal surrounding Tesla's boss? |
| 38% | LAIN | 4 | Word that means "reclined" and sounds like a country road |
| 38% | NASAL | 5 | Sounding like someone with a bad cold |
| 37% | BADDEST | 7 | Sounds like the worst but it means best, toughest |
| 37% | BUCATINI | 8 | Like spaghetti, but with a hole down the center |
| 37% | SYNONYM | 7 | Word with another's meaning |