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| Stage |
Word Count |
Value |
| Preliminaries |
288 |
3 points each |
| Spellers Participating |
Spellers Eliminated |
Spellers Advancing |
Percent Advancing |
| 288 |
198 |
90 |
31.3% |
| Spellers Misspelling |
Spellers Answering Correctly |
Percent Answering Correctly |
| 94 |
194 |
67.4% |
Words
| magenta |
| arbitrariness |
| stalagmite |
| dentifrice |
| portmanteau |
| criterion |
| bombinate |
| evidentiary |
| Paralympics |
| rambunctious |
| wassail |
| transcendental |
| elucidate |
| flummery |
| nomenclative |
| zeppelin |
| thermolysis |
| sicklocyte |
| perlustrate |
| mesomorphic |
| geriatrician |
| scrupulously |
| dissipated |
| ambuscade |
| hydrotropism |
| languorous |
| polyphony |
| unadulterated |
| somnolently |
| juvenescence |
| impartiality |
| epitome |
| cantilever |
| monolithic |
| propensity |
| sultana |
| vaudevillian |
| ontological |
| fallacy |
| decelerate |
| epigram |
| bockwurst |
| gosling |
| Manhattanese |
| pinniped |
| wainwright |
| trophic |
| decorum |
| spatiography |
| periphrasis |
| lieu |
| Frankenstein |
| heretical |
| ecocatastrophe |
| palliative |
| retinoscopy |
| Britannic |
| affreight |
| quadrifid |
| enculturate |
| photosynthesis |
| solemnization |
| cassock |
| meritocracy |
| arable |
| demeanor |
| hypogeal |
| prodigious |
| seder |
| yeomanry |
| nonchalant |
| skedaddle |
| enervated |
| coerce |
| metonymy |
| sartorial |
| normothermia |
| kudos |
| proliferate |
| veracity |
| geanticline |
| creekology |
| backgammon |
| edifice |
| ineludible |
| oniomania |
| querimonious |
| rollick |
| tactically |
| Sioux |
| unilateral |
| zoolatry |
| laryngitis |
| excruciating |
| asteria |
| nonce |
| sudation |
| parabolic |
| homeostasis |
| draconian |
| floscular |
| reiterate |
| monticle |
| elocution |
| coniferous |
| emulsify |
| mobilometer |
| piquancy |
| treacherous |
| sophistry |
| arabesque |
| defeasance |
| restauratrice |
| quandary |
| ethanol |
| brigadier |
| chary |
| onomasticon |
| subsidiary |
| umbilicate |
| psyllium |
| hackneyed |
| gaudery |
| flamboyance |
| assimilation |
| coronary |
| hibernaculum |
| melatonin |
| serf |
| roux |
| personalia |
| thespian |
| incisiform |
| cannonade |
| bailiff |
| alabaster |
| conglomeration |
| emery |
| sidereal |
| philistine |
| fictionalize |
| approbatory |
| cotyledon |
| indolent |
| pontificate |
| tinnient |
| spelunking |
| metachrosis |
| decrepitude |
| brininess |
| cartel |
| panornithic |
| quarantine |
| rigatoni |
| undulate |
| tungsten |
| astronautical |
| gingivitis |
| obstetrician |
| macaroon |
| reggae |
| somniloquist |
| laudable |
| contrariant |
| elicitation |
| hepatic |
| bronchial |
| docilely |
| equanimity |
| rubricate |
| serology |
| variegated |
| soporific |
| tetrapteron |
| surcease |
| frabjous |
| affiliate |
| endocrine |
| clique |
| meniscus |
| slumgullion |
| remunerative |
| perceptible |
| mahogany |
| beatitude |
| deferential |
| varicose |
| sylph |
| neoprene |
| kibbutz |
| intercessory |
| ebullient |
| fratority |
| hibiscus |
| androcracy |
| mauve |
| discrete |
| QWERTY |
| tubulifloral |
| laminate |
| rosella |
| iambist |
| gelato |
| pathogenicity |
| ordnance |
| wallaby |
| ethos |
| convergent |
| argentous |
| ostracism |
| movimento |
| julienne |
| pariah |
| quadrennial |
| emaciated |
| churlish |
| pegador |
| sigmoid |
| umbrageous |
| lithophyte |
| volute |
| kaiserdom |
| gasconade |
| farcical |
| debilitate |
| balsam |
| nuptiality |
| practitioner |
| recension |
| thimblerig |
| salutary |
| cardiopathy |
| obnubilate |
| archangel |
| crucially |
| exorbitant |
| hypotenuse |
| innumerable |
| memoriter |
| lyre |
| gyroscope |
| dulcify |
| calumniate |
| polypharmacy |
| rupestrian |
| vowelless |
| fraudulent |
| decimation |
| palmyra |
| zoism |
| vaccinate |
| contravene |
| monotonous |
| paraphrastic |
| shekel |
| tympanum |
| rapacity |
| unimpeded |
| osoberry |
| myophysics |
| lambent |
| gumptious |
| facticide |
| chromatophore |
| agrostologist |
| babblative |
| ebonize |
| Interlingua |
| neophiliac |
| culpable |
| jurisprudence |
| provender |
| tassel |
| raiment |
| palaver |
| espousal |
| attendant |
| dalliance |
| gangrene |
| stagnicolous |
| obituary |
| immitigable |
| nectar |
| brontide |
| sabermetrics |
| paronymous |
| revocable |
| nutria |
Round Results