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Info
Stage: Preliminaries
Word Count: 273
Value: 3 points each
Spellers Participating: 273
Spellers Misspelling: 41
Spellers Spelling Correctly: 232
Percent Spelling Correctly: 85.0%
Spellers Eliminated: 225
Spellers Advancing: 48
Percent Advancing: 17.6%
Words
| gerenuk |
| tuyere |
| unau |
| garçon |
| antipodes |
| bozzetto |
| pompier |
| uitlander |
| archimage |
| velum |
| détente |
| shanghaied |
| realgar |
| pizzicato |
| notornis |
| barukhzy |
| edelweiss |
| Hennebique |
| bromeliad |
| cappelletti |
| matelote |
| vaquero |
| izar |
| suffraginis |
| rejoneador |
| caponata |
| limitrophe |
| shrieval |
| alogism |
| gnathothorax |
| jactance |
| oryctology |
| schipperke |
| thrasonical |
| epulation |
| bhalu |
| zaibatsu |
| lyssa |
| springerle |
| upaithric |
| chaudfroid |
| mesophryon |
| biauriculate |
| tanha |
| crepitant |
| Holarctic |
| mihrab |
| vibrissae |
| neurasthenic |
| bocca |
| nummular |
| douane |
| wushu |
| Slurvian |
| obscurantism |
| menhaden |
| kemancha |
| Singspiel |
| zeitgeber |
| vermivorous |
| pithecological |
| voile |
| apartheid |
| faiblesse |
| jnana |
| hesychastic |
| apparatchik |
| rachischisis |
| braggadocio |
| grivoiserie |
| monoceros |
| halal |
| merotomize |
| panforte |
| keeshond |
| tetragrammaton |
| orison |
| blastema |
| durwan |
| geniculate |
| distinguo |
| tchotchke |
| henotheism |
| rallentando |
| mukhtar |
| scotodinia |
| rasceta |
| dragoman |
| hiemal |
| anschluss |
| ocelot |
| monadnock |
| tokamak |
| troglobiont |
| crebrity |
| gonfalonier |
| mahout |
| vacatur |
| nuncupation |
| famulus |
| prabhu |
| pomatum |
| balalaika |
| bicephalous |
| jacquerie |
| schottische |
| drisheen |
| quila |
| synoecious |
| gesundheit |
| carrosserie |
| errhine |
| sachem |
| buran |
| auxanogram |
| superaurale |
| pfeffernuss |
| chilblain |
| pycnoxylic |
| zucchetto |
| nudicaudate |
| mandir |
| quersprung |
| clozapine |
| mynheer |
| lebkuchen |
| reboation |
| Beetewk |
| termagancy |
| satsuma |
| coeval |
| fennec |
| delphinium |
| rialto |
| Weissnichtwo |
| moquette |
| nenuphar |
| fondant |
| meridional |
| jacamar |
| xerocolous |
| upas |
| schnecke |
| instauration |
| subauditur |
| ecdysis |
| appestat |
| salaam |
| franglais |
| phantasmagoric |
| caballero |
| imputrescible |
| stentorophonic |
| Hemerocallis |
| catoptromancy |
| paludicolous |
| pickelhaube |
| diffa |
| pergelisol |
| nictitant |
| omoplate |
| apotheosis |
| perestroika |
| dyscalculia |
| Baedeker |
| lecithin |
| xylophilous |
| affenpinscher |
| scarabaeus |
| girandole |
| wedel |
| pignorate |
| carcinomatous |
| dreidel |
| demoiselle |
| estragon |
| ecesis |
| corsair |
| floribunda |
| sessile |
| lahar |
| onomatope |
| Bloomsbury |
| foggara |
| stupose |
| ipecac |
| schalstein |
| verism |
| serdab |
| philtrum |
| opinicus |
| brocard |
| myelopathy |
| Bobadil |
| vatic |
| Wiccan |
| wapentake |
| isothere |
| galjoen |
| neurokyme |
| numen |
| weimaraner |
| frippery |
| panopticon |
| iridescence |
| landau |
| khor |
| sapajou |
| acciaccatura |
| witloof |
| talipes |
| ocellated |
| alim |
| Luddite |
| saliferous |
| expatiation |
| aepyornis |
| dido |
| schadenfreude |
| Troadic |
| entotic |
| xanthochromia |
| fantoccini |
| ecdysone |
| neolalia |
| gibbous |
| Holi |
| sabra |
| haptic |
| mirador |
| muishond |
| matutinal |
| imprecatory |
| iscariotic |
| maraschino |
| crotalic |
| irremeable |
| nastaliq |
| remontant |
| reticle |
| hoomalimali |
| mystagogue |
| oracy |
| onychauxis |
| prosciutto |
| lorica |
| seriary |
| voortrekker |
| chlorpyrifos |
| polychotomous |
| alation |
| bobbejaan |
| declivitous |
| chevon |
| coati |
| ptarmigan |
| animus |
| paparazzo |
| chthonic |
| renitency |
| connoisseur |
| solano |
| psychalgia |
| nullipara |
| Croesus |
| amative |
| milchig |
| effigial |
| kielbasa |
| celeriac |
| schuyt |
| intaglio |
| bisagre |
Round Results
| Preliminaries | Semifinals | Championship Finals |
| Round One Test | Round 4 | Round 7 |
| Round 2 | Round 5 | Round 8 |
| Round 3 | Round 6 | Round 9 |