{"id":311,"date":"2019-05-25T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T09:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2019-05-26T00:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T00:35:19","slug":"top-google-searches-words-spelling-by-us-state-beautiful-embarassed-patience-family-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/top-google-searches-words-spelling-by-us-state-beautiful-embarassed-patience-family-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"“Beautiful”, “embarrassed”, “patience”… America’s top spelling searches by state, according to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(quote)

\n\nBeautiful, bougie and all the other words Americans still can\u2019t spell, state by state<\/a> \nAround the time 12-year-old Ananya Vinay of Fresno, Calif., triumphed with \u201cm-a-r-o-c-a-i-n,\u201d the people in her home state struggled with \u201cb-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.\u201d The following year, when 14-year old Karthik Nemmani of McKinney, Tex., bested his opponent with \u201ck-o-i-n-o-n-i-a,\u201d Texans really wanted to know how to spell \u201cs-u-p-e-r-c-a-l-i-f-r-a-g-i-l-i-s-t-i-c-e-x-p-i-a-l-i-d-o-c-i-o-u-s.\u201d

\n\nThe Scripps National Spelling Bee starts Tuesday, pitting 565 contestants age 7 to 15 against each other to spell words they will likely never use in a sentence. Back also is Google with its list of America\u2019s top spelling searches (it was previously called America\u2019s most misspelled words).

\n\nGoogle says the list is based on the search phrase \u201cHow to spell .\u2009.\u2009. \u201d but does not say when the searches were made nor provide additional context for the searches, so we are left to our own imagination.

\n\nFor example, why are people from so many states searching \u201cHow to spell beautiful\u201d? It\u2019s been a common top word in the past three years. In 2019, a \u201cbeautiful\u201d belt runs from Virginia through the Carolinas and Georgia into Florida. \u201cIndict\u201d in Louisiana seems ominous. What about \u201cindependence\u201d in North Dakota? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious appeared in 2017 and 2018 only to fall off entirely this year. Hawaii went from \u201cgrateful\u201d in 2018 to \u201cHawaii\u201d in 2019. The District simply had \u201cenough.\u201d

\n\nThe full list for 2019 is below.

\n\nAlabama: niece
\nAlaska: preferred
\nArizona: patient
\nArkansas: family
\nCalifornia: beautiful
\nColorado: favorite
\nConnecticut: neighbor
\nDelaware: veterinarian
\nWashington, D.C.: enough
\nFlorida: beautiful
\nGeorgia: beautiful
\nHawaii: Hawaii
\nIdaho: embarrassed
\nIllinois: beautiful
\nIndiana: activities
\nIowa: loose
\nKansas: committee
\nKentucky: ninety
\nLouisiana: indict
\nMaine: guess
\nMaryland: heart
\nMassachusetts: grey
\nMichigan: amazing
\nMinnesota: especially
\nMississippi: fifteen
\nMissouri: definitely
\nMontana: comma
\nNebraska: delicious
\nNevada: appreciate
\nNew Hampshire: recess
\nNew Jersey: grey
\nNew Mexico: patience
\nNew York: bougie
\nNorth Carolina: beautiful
\nNorth Dakota: independence
\nOhio: favorite
\nOklahoma: February
\nOregon: phenomenal
\nPennsylvania: pneumonia
\nRhode Island: message
\nSouth Carolina: beautiful
\nSouth Dakota: jewelry
\nTennessee: intelligent
\nTexas: beautiful
\nUtah: important
\nVermont: benefit
\nVirginia: beautiful
\nWashington: grey
\nWest Virginia: eleven
\nWisconsin: opinion
\nWyoming: tear

\n\n(unquote)

\n\nImage courtesy Washington Post \/ Google<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(quote) Beautiful, bougie and all the other words Americans still can\u2019t spell, state by state Around the time 12-year-old Ananya Vinay of Fresno, Calif., triumphed with \u201cm-a-r-o-c-a-i-n,\u201d the people in her home state struggled with \u201cb-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.\u201d The following year, when 14-year old Karthik Nemmani of McKinney, Tex., bested his opponentRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,11,12],"tags":[26,27,40,18,35,52,28,41,32],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-humor","post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-funny-bone","category-life-nature-society","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-internet","tag-life","tag-news","tag-people","tag-places","tag-society","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}