| 100% | EATNO | 5 | Words before fat and lean, in a nursery rhyme |
| 61% | BAA | 3 | Word before "black sheep" in a nursery rhyme |
| 58% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep" in a nursery rhyme |
| 55% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme |
| 55% | TWINKLE | 7 | Word repeated before "little star," in a nursery rhyme |
| 55% | BAA | 3 | Word said twice before "black sheep" in a nursery rhyme |
| 55% | BAA | 3 | Word sung twice before "black sheep" in a nursery rhyme |
| 53% | ITS | 3 | Word between "raining" and "pouring" in a popular nursery rhyme |
| 51% | OINKS | 5 | Sounds heard here and there in a nursery rhyme |
| 50% | WERE | 4 | Word before "here" and "queer" in a pride slogan |
| 49% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 48% | MANO | 4 | Word before and after a, in a fighting style |
| 48% | ASHES | 5 | Word before and after "to," in a religious phrase |
| 48% | SPY | 3 | Word before and after "vs." in a Mad feature |
| 48% | TOBE | 4 | Words before and after "or not" in a Shakespeare quote |
| 48% | MEASURE | 7 | Word before and after "for" in a Shakespeare play title |
| 48% | NYET | 4 | Word before and after "Tovarich" in a "Doctor Zhivago" number |
| 47% | NOR | 3 | Word before "rain," "heat" and "gloom of night" in a postal creed |
| 47% | SPRAT | 5 | He could "eat no fat," in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | TOM | 3 | Boy whose name is repeated in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | LAMB | 4 | Little critter that follows Mary in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | PEASE | 5 | Food in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | PEASE | 5 | Vegetable in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | POSIES | 6 | Pocketful, in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | PIGGIES | 7 | Quintet in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | PEASES | 6 | Porridges in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | SPRAT | 5 | Jack in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | TOE | 3 | Piggy, in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | IVES | 4 | Saint in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | COW | 3 | Jumper in a nursery rhyme |