  Call a reduced word $w$ multiplicity-bounding if and only if a finite group
on which the word map of $w$ has a fiber of positive proportion $\rho$ can only
contain each nonabelian finite simple group $S$ as a composition factor with
multiplicity bounded in terms of $\rho$ and $S$. In this paper, based on recent
work of Nikolov, we present methods to show that a given reduced word is
multiplicity-bounding and apply them to give some nontrivial examples of
multiplicity-bounding words, such as words of the form $x^e$, where $x$ is a
single variable and $e$ an odd integer.
