Fancy yourself a good speller?
See if you would have been able to spell the words given to 278 young spellers in the second round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which started Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
Lori Anne Madison, 6. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
The star of the bee so far is 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison of Woodbridge, Va., the youngest-ever contestant in the national bee. She accurately spelled the word “dirigible” in the second round.
These are the words that were missed in the second round:
syndicate — incorrectly spelled as cindicate
hebetate — incorrectly spelled as hebate
twoling — incorrectly spelled tuling
iridaceous — incorrectly spelled iradacious
quixote — incorrectly spelled quiksot
homologate — incorrectly spelled homaligate
maraud — incorrectly spelled mirod
wellaway — incorrectly spelled wellawey
gnathonic — incorrectly spelled nathonic
liaise — incorrectly spelled liase
blasé — incorrectly spelled blazet
ascetic — incorrectly spelled ascedic
lenitive — incorrectly spelled leanitive
sassafras — incorrectly spelled sassafrass
ingenue — incorrectly spelled angenue
recidivist — incorrectly spelled recitevist
pilosity — incorrectly spelled pilocity
kaiserdom — incorrectly spelled keizerdom
dossier — incorrectly spelled dociere
fuchsias — incorrectly spelled fuschias
dragoon — incorrectly spelled dragune
segue — incorrectly spelled segway
veracity — incorrectly spelled verasity
limpid — incorrectly spelled limpet
Here are some of the words that were spelled correctly:
aioli
witticism
qwerty
thistle
kudize
gymnure
qualitative
ullage
hyacinth
imperilment
rapport
oompah
And here’s the whole list, complete with which word was given to each speller.