Joseph Moran, speller 199, is out.
The Idaho seventh grader misspelled "cyclamen," a plant or flower of a genus of widely cultivated Eurasian plants having centrally depressed rounded tubers, basal leaves, and nodding white, pink or purplish flowers.
He raised his eyebrows at the sentence: "When Beth confirmed to her son that her favorite flower was the cyclamen, he breathed a sigh of relief then revealed a full back tattoo of a cyclamen surrounded by the words 'I heart mom.'"
Joseph is in his third bee. He tied for 323rd place last year and 41st place in 2017.