Just in time for the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals this week, Google released a list of the most misspelled words in the country for 2018.
The Google Trends data visualization is based on the top “how to spell” searches by state. According to the map, folks were most curious about the correct spelling of “beautiful.” In fact, the word ranked first in 11 states.
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Georgia joined five other states in confusion over the spelling of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” though some on social media are wondering why anyone would even need to use the word.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is an English word meaning "extraordinarily good; wonderful," according to the Oxford Dictionary. The term originated in 1940 and was later popularized by the 1964 film, "Mary Poppins."
Other commonly misspelled words in America, according to the Google Trends data: resume, canceled, schedule and sincerely.
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This year's Scripps National Spelling Bee has drawn the largest number of competitors in its history, 516 spellers, but the field gets much smaller Wednesday with the announcement of the 50 or so spellers who will make Thursday's finals.
Here is the most misspelled word in each state (plus Washington, D.C.), based on the Google map:
- Alabama: cousin
- Alaska: veteran
- Arizona: beautiful
- Arkansas: beautiful
- California: beautiful
- Colorado: resume
- Connecticut: sincerely
- Delaware: decision
- Florida: hors d'oeuvres
- Georgia: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Hawaii: grateful
- Idaho: businesses
- Illinois: beautiful
- Indiana: beautiful
- Iowa: vacuum
- Kansas: consequences
- Kentucky: definitely
- Louisiana: favorite
- Maine: Connecticut
- Maryland: canceled
- Massachusetts: beautiful
- Michigan: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Minnesota: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Mississippi: gray
- Missouri: sincerely
- Montana: tomorrow
- Nebraska: nocturnal
- Nevada: probably
- New Hampshire: subtle
- New Jersey: resume
- New Mexico: permanently
- New York: resume
- North Carolina: beautiful
- North Dakota: yacht
- Ohio: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Oklahoma: canceled
- Oregon: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Pennsylvania: schedule
- Rhode Island: dying
- South Carolina: beginning
- South Dakota: chaos
- Tennessee: schedule
- Texas: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Utah: beautiful
- Vermont: solution
- Virginia: beautiful
- Washington: beautiful
- Washington, D.C.: permanent
- West Virginia: apparel
- Wisconsin: beautiful
- Wyoming: fiancé
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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