| 100% | IRAISE | 6 | Words that might result in folders |
| 61% | PROMISEME | 9 | Request that may result in swearing |
| 60% | PEACETALKS | 10 | Negotiations that might result in a treaty |
| 60% | FLAGRANTFOULS | 13 | Basketball infractions that might result in ejection |
| 60% | YODEL | 5 | Call that might result in a 27-Across |
| 60% | AIR | 3 | Inflation cause that might result in a bubble? |
| 60% | ALLEYOOPS | 9 | Basketball plays that might result in a miss? |
| 59% | TORTS | 5 | Harmful acts that may result in civil liability |
| 59% | OVERDRAFT | 9 | Account action that may result in a fee |
| 59% | PRANK | 5 | Call that may result in an abrupt hang-up |
| 59% | LOB | 3 | High tennis shot that may result in a smash |
| 58% | ISTO | 4 | Words that might be used in an analogy |
| 58% | DIMINUTIVE | 10 | Word that might end in -ie or -ling |
| 58% | ILLSUE | 6 | Words that may cause fear in a business |
| 57% | DARE | 4 | Challenge that may result in shaving cream all over someone's face |
| 56% | BIENVENUE | 9 | Word that might be in the introduction to a French textbook |
| 56% | NEE | 3 | Word that may precede a maiden name in a news article |
| 56% | NEE | 3 | Word that may precede a maiden name in a marriage announcement |
| 55% | ARE | 3 | Word that might be shortened to just its middle letter, in texts |
| 55% | ELSE | 4 | Conditional word that might come after "if" in your JavaScript |
| 52% | SALE | 4 | Announcement that might end up in a spam folder |
| 52% | DOUBLEPLAY | 10 | Baseball feat that may result in the situation you can spell using the deleted letters in this puzzle |
| 52% | TIE | 3 | Result that may be settled in overtime |
| 51% | EMAIL | 5 | Message that might appear in a spam folder |
| 51% | FILE | 4 | Folder that might be stored in an office cabinet |
| 51% | OHM | 3 | Word in a mantra that meditating electricians might chant? |
| 50% | TUNE | 4 | Melody that may be whistled or sung (hidden in the word "fortune") |
| 50% | DONTSTARTWITHME | 15 | Words that might begin (or prevent) an argument, and a grammar tip for the three speakers in this puzzle |
| 49% | COMMA | 5 | Punctuation mark that might appear many times in a long list of words |
| 48% | JAW | 3 | Mouth part that may "drop" in disbelief, also a word used with "bone" |