| 100% | NEAR | 4 | Word which means "within reach" and rhymes with "dear" |
| 53% | YAY | 3 | Word that means, and rhymes with, "Hooray!" |
| 52% | BRIM | 4 | Word that means "rim" and also rhymes with it |
| 44% | CLASPED | 7 | Held close, rhymes with and means "grasped" |
| 44% | STEEP | 5 | It rhymes with "cheap" and means the opposite |
| 43% | GUESS | 5 | Word that means "estimate" and ends with "ss" |
| 42% | BLISS | 5 | Word that means "pure joy" and ends with "ss" |
| 41% | GROSS | 5 | Word that means "icky or repulsive" and ends with "ss" |
| 41% | APRICOT | 7 | Word rhymed with "yacht" and "gavotte" in "You're So Vain" |
| 40% | BYE | 3 | Word that rhymes with "hi" but means the opposite |
| 40% | GAWK | 4 | Word meaning "stare" that rhymes with "hawk" |
| 40% | ROVE | 4 | Word meaning "wander" that rhymes with "cove" |
| 40% | ROIL | 4 | Word meaning "agitate" that rhymes with "boil" |
| 40% | SLEW | 4 | Word meaning "boatload" that rhymes with "blue" |
| 40% | RYE | 3 | Word rhymed with "Pie," "dry" and "die," in the "American Pie" chorus |
| 40% | HETERONYM | 9 | Word spelled identically to another but with a different pronunciation and meaning |
| 39% | MAMA | 4 | Word with the same meaning in English, Swahili and Mandarin, among other languages |
| 39% | GLEAN | 5 | Word that rhymes with "clean" to mean gather bit by bit |
| 38% | GAWK | 4 | Word meaning "stare dumbly" that rhymes with "walk" |
| 38% | SHIRK | 5 | Word meaning "avoid work" that rhymes with "work" |
| 38% | ILK | 3 | Word that means 'kind' (rhymes with 'milk') |
| 38% | POETRY | 6 | Literary work with verses and rhyming words |
| 38% | MAHALO | 6 | Hawaiian word which means "Thanks" |
| 37% | MAYBE | 5 | Word loosely rhymed with “crazy” and “chase me” in a Carly Rae Jepsen song |
| 37% | PER | 3 | Latin word which means "for every" |
| 36% | WRY | 3 | Type of humor and rhymes with dry |
| 36% | RANT | 4 | *Go on a tirade ... or a word used with 25d to mean shout and complain angrily |
| 36% | AURA | 4 | Word which is synonym for 8a (rhymes with "Norah") |
| 36% | VIA | 3 | Flight connection word which means by way of |
| 36% | ETA | 3 | Greek letter that precedes, and rhymes with, theta |