Spelling Bees as we all know could really get intense especially when there is a large crop of exceptional spellers who have properly studied the words in a given word list for a competition, thereby making it difficult to get a winner.
Most times, the judges are left with no other option than to go outside the word list and source for really difficult words so as to break the tie between students or to enable them get a winner as in the case of the 2024 team masters National Spelling bee Senior Secondary Category final where the Pronouncer had to go outside the word list to break a tie between two exceptional students after exhausting the words in his word list.
The first speller was given the word : Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)
The second speller: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)
Those words are Mind-blowing right but I can tell you that they are no match for a word like Streichholzschachtelchen (24 letters) but then, the difficulty of a word isn’t really measured by the Lengthiness of that word.
If we are to measure the difficulty of a word based on its lengthiness, then the word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovocanoconiosis (45 Letter and officially the longest in English Language) would be the most difficult word to spell but I can tell you clearly that this word is actually very easy to spell as it possesses a straight forward pronunciation and the words can easily be broken down into syllables while spelling unlike a word like Sauerkraut
We have a lot of short but tricky words whose pronunciation will leave you bewildered.
This includes words like: Beau, Fjeld, Phlegm, Reseau, Gunwale, etc.
We have compiled a list of over 300 hard spelling bee words that every speller Needs to know. Check the words below and download free PDF.
HARD SPELLING BEE WORDS
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