Two more spellers are out, and at the end of the round, there were 34 still in the competition -- six had misspelled.
Sheridan Hennessy, speller 449 and an Ohio seventh grader, misspelled "terebinthinate," relating to, containing, or resembling turpentine (as in odor).
Sheridan tied for 41st place in 2017.
Maitri Kovuru, speller 483 and a Texas eighth grader, misspelled "diaeresis," the two dots placed over a vowel (as over the second of two adjacent vowels) to indicate that the vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable (as in naïve or Brontë).
At the start of the next round, Pavani Chittemsetty, speller 38, misspelled "ferreiro," a Brazilian tree frog that produces notes resembling measured beating on a copper plate.
The Arkansas seventh grader tied for 42nd place last year and 46th the year before.
