In honor of the 90th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee this week, Google shared a graphic of the most misspelled words in every state.
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The map, however, shows the most-searched spellings by state based on Google Trends data between January and April 2017, revealing the words residents of each state search “how to spell” the most.
Credit: Google

Credit: Google
Credit: Google
Credit: Google
While unsurprising commonly misspelled words such as “beautiful” and “pneumonia” topped the list, some Americans had a tough time with more basic words like “nanny” or “liar.”
But neither are as embarrassing as Wisconsin’s most misspelled word — their own state name.
And as for Georgia, where Google deemed residents have trouble spelling the word “gray,” critics are pointing out both “grey” and “gray” are acceptable spellings.
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According to Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com, "gray" is more popular in the U.S. and "grey" is more commonly used in the UK.
As always, Twitter users responded with some sass, helpful advice, possible explanations and, of course, outright embarrassment.
When spelling banana, literally just sing hollaback girl to yourself.
— Sharpshooter (@whitney_rowell) May 30, 2017
It disappoints me that New York doesn't know how to spell "beautiful". Haven't they ever seen 'Bruce Almighty'??? pic.twitter.com/7ZLMI9K4CS
— ʎǝןpuɐɥ ʍǝɥʇʇɐɯ (@Matthew_Handley) May 31, 2017
How about, their, there, and they're. I guess when you don't know you are spelling it incorrectly you just wouldn't google it, right?
— Barbara Roberts (@BarbaraR1255) May 31, 2017
Come on #Sconnies, you don't know how to spell the name of your own state? #Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/T5brVBTlqQ
— Cullen C. Rude (@Crude_Chronicle) May 30, 2017
All I can come up with is ppl searching for which version of the word they need: sense vs scents vs cents, college vs collage, gray vs grey
— Shawn Foss (@Shawn_Foss) May 30, 2017
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If some of your embarrassing “how to spell” Google searches are on this list, don’t worry. Even the geniuses at Google make mistakes.
In fact, in their first tweet revealing the list of 2017’s most commonly misspelled words in America, the company misspelled Maryland’s most misspelled word, “ninety.”
America's most misspelled words - it's #spellingbee week and we mapped top "how to spell" searches by state#dataviz pic.twitter.com/oHkRHj8Eku
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) May 30, 2017
Yes, yes we did. Just tweeted a corrected version
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) May 30, 2017
Comes right after eddy nine
— Truth Hertz (@umussbekidding) May 30, 2017
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