  Generalizing a recent result of Mann, we show that there is an explicit
function $f:\left(0,1\right]\rightarrow\left(0,1\right]$ such that for every
reduced word $w$, say in $d$ variables, there is an explicit reduced word $v$
in at most $3d$ variables (nontrivial if the length of $w$ is at least $2$)
such that for all $\rho\in\left(0,1\right]$, the following holds: If $G$ is any
finite group for which the word map $w_G:G^d\rightarrow G$ agrees with some
fixed homomorphism $G^d\rightarrow G$ on at least $\rho|G|^d$ many arguments,
then the word map $v_G:G^{3d}\rightarrow G$ has a fiber of size at least
$f(\rho)|G|^{3d}$. We also discuss some applications of this result.
