This inquiry explores how same-sex strangers evolve latent semantic similarity (LSS), or how they come to employ words in the same way, in their initial interactions. Only those behaviors that introduce words into the conversation appear uniquely prognostic of LSS. These findings propose that “the words may be all you need,” and that LSS might evolve as effectively in non–face-to-face (i.e., computer-mediated) conversations in which only words are exchanged as in face-to-face conversations in which nonverbal behaviors are exchanged too.