The Scripps National Spelling Bee is going on right now. The finals are tomorrow. But you probably won’t see any of THESE words pop up . . .
Google Trends revealed the top word each state can’t remember how to spell. They came up with them by looking at searches for “How to spell [BLANK].”
A few of them ARE kinda tough. For example: “Shenanigans” in Michigan . . . “miscellaneous” in New Mexico . . . “embarrassed” in Kentucky . . . “kindergarten” in Minnesota . . . and “professional” in Wyoming.
But a lot of the others are words we SHOULD be able to spell. We won’t list all 50, but here are the highlights . . .
1. People in Kansas can’t remember how to spell “Tennessee”. Other nine-letter words we struggle with include “beautiful,” “efficient,” and “etiquette.”
2. Seven- and eight-letter words dominate the map. North Carolina can’t spell “awesome” . . . Missouri can’t spell “February” . . . Iowa can’t spell “Thursday” . . . Arkansas and Illinois can’t spell “tomorrow” (which is also Thursday) . . .
Alabama can’t spell “daughter” . . . North Dakota can’t spell “science” . . . New York can’t spell “quarter” . . . Texas can’t spell “pyramid” . . . Idaho can’t spell “sentence” . . . and Nevada has a real problem with the word “problem.”
3. 16 states struggle with five- and six-letter words. Delaware can’t spell the word “those” . . . Utah can’t spell “chose” . . . Tennessee can’t spell “sugar” . . . Georgia can’t spell “queen” . . . people in Pennsylvania can’t spell “people” . . . and “how to spell GEORGE” is the top-trending search in Arizona. (???)
4. And finally, two states struggle with four-letter words. Colorado can’t remember how to spell “ally.” And Mississippi keeps googling “how to spell gray.” G-R-A-Y is more common here. G-R-E-Y is how they do it in the U.K.
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