2022 Round 1 Results
Spelling Round
162
72
Spellers eliminated in this round finished in 163rd place (tied).
| No. | Speller's Name | Speller's Sponsor | Word | Spelling Given |
| 1 | Sahasrad Sathish | Lake County Regional Office of Education | giallolino |
giallolino
|
| 2 | Quinten Atutis | Carroll/JoDaviess/Stephenson Regional Office of Education | vaccary |
vacarie
|
| 3 | Wes Cooper | Kankakee Valley REMC | meringue |
mirangue
|
| 4 | Charlie Palmore | The Washington Informer | aficionado |
afficionado
|
| 5 | Ishan Ramrakhiani | SNSB Indiana Regional Bee | Bezier curve |
Bezier curve
|
| 6 | Joshua Diocares | Kent Intermediate School District | meunière |
meunière
|
| 7 | Edith Dawson | The Dispatch Argus | hangul |
hangul
|
| 8 | Juan Rondeau | The Miami Herald | ikebana |
ikebana
|
| 9 | Naresh Ram | Collier County Public Schools | caryatid |
charyatid
|
| 10 | Billy Scialla | Delaware Spelling Bee | a posteriori |
a posteriory
|
| 11 | Achyut Ethiraj | SNSB Indiana Regional Bee | tmesis |
tmesis
|
| 12 | Vikrant Chintanaboina | SNSB Regional Bee (Region Two) | pylorus |
pylorus
|
| 13 | Emma Maldarelli | Hawaii State Spelling Bee | kobold |
cobald
|
| 14 | Sydney Graham | Envision Credit Union | Stradivarius |
Stradivarius
|
| 15 | Lara Randhawa | Riverside County Office of Education | realgar |
realgar
|
| 16 | Petra Sarpong | Young Educators Foundation | force majeure |
force majeure
|
| 17 | Tejas Raman | Boulder Valley School District | urticaria |
urticaria
|
| 18 | Jia Xin Lu | Boise State University | caisson |
kaison
|
| 19 | Mihir Konkapaka | The San Diego Union-Tribune | gypsophila |
gypsophila
|
| 20 | Braydon Syx | Alabama Kiwanis Foundation | ormolu |
ormolu
|
| 21 | Rehan Koshy | SNSB Regional Bee for Illinois and Texas | dirigible |
dirigible
|
| 22 | Amelia Rice | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram | piloncillo |
peloncio
|
| 23 | Noemie Jackson-Weaver | The Washington Informer | bobolink |
bobolink
|
| 24 | John Eoh | KERO 23 ABC | facile |
facile
|
| 25 | Christian Cherian | Howard County Library | lefse |
lefse
|
| 26 | Brody Santos | The Miami Herald | ligas |
ligas
|
| 27 | Shradha Rachamreddy | SNSB Regional Bee (Region Two) | escritoire |
escritoire
|
| 28 | Wyatt Jalocha | Ludington Daily News | otiose |
otiose
|
| 29 | Abram Polley | Indiana University | hinoki |
hinoki
|
| 30 | Matthew Yi | New Orleans Chapter of The Links | allonym |
alinim
|
| 31 | Eli Cokelet | Kansas Press Association | bdelloid |
deloid
|
| 32 | Tejas Katira | Kane County Regional Office of Education | lidocaine |
lidocaine
|
| 33 | Julia Settevendemie | Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society | lachsschinken |
lachsschinken
|
| 34 | Varshitha Bojanapati | SNSB Regional Bee (Region One) | euphonious |
euphonious
|
| 35 | Angelina Gampala | WXYZ Channel 7 | pastitsio |
pastichio
|
| 36 | Ananya Augustine | Georgia Association of Educators | ciliopathy |
ciliopathy
|
| 37 | Miles Hubbert | Maryland Sports | Bavarian cream |
Bevarian cream
|
| 38 | Bruhat Soma | SNSB Regional Bee (Region One) | allelopathy | |
| 39 | Aydin Jones | Charles County Public Schools | sepulchral |
supolcrol
|
| 40 | Isaac Morowitz | Chicago Public Schools | corybantic |
corybantic
|
| 41 | Noemi Galan | Ball State University - WIPB-TV | sporran |
sporon
|
| 42 | N'Adom Darko-Asare | Young Educators Foundation | emollient |
emollient
|
| 43 | Sam Evans | WJXT | betony |
betony
|
| 44 | Emmie Rakes | Idaho Character Foundation | gaillardia |
gallardia
|
| 45 | Justin Tran | Los Angeles Spelling Bee Collaborative | catjang |
katjang
|
| 46 | Aiden Pham | Kiwanis Club of Lafayette | affogato |
affogotto
|
| 47 | Dominic Marroquin | Olathe Public Schools | illative |
illative
|
| 48 | Sahil Thorat | Louisiana State University Shreveport | skeuomorph |
skeuomorph
|
| 49 | Joey Finnerty | Lafayette Adult Resource Academy | panegyric |
panegyric
|
| 50 | Nesika Bellville | Sourcewell | lebensraum |
lebensraum
|
| 51 | Merit Namaste-Rose | Regional Office of Education #47 | nimiety |
anaimeaty
|
| 52 | Tristan Schneichel | SAGE Publishing | connoisseur |
connoisseur
|
| 53 | Arnav Kolluru | Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education | Alfvén |
Alfvén
|
| 54 | Isabella Cowan | WFCU Credit Union | duxelles |
duxell
|
| 55 | Max Foley | DeKalb Regional Office of Education 16 | chrysolite |
crysalite
|
| 56 | Annie-Lois Acheampong | Young Educators Foundation | coulrophobia |
coulrophobia
|
| 57 | Ana Guadalupe Villagomez | Pacific Daily News | rooseveltite |
roseveltite
|
| 58 | Jonathan Dezir | Grundy/Kendall County Regional Office of Education | katakana |
katakana
|
| 59 | Navtaj Singh | Lewiston Tribune | lemniscus |
lemniscus
|
| 60 | Jason Khan | The Orange County Register | threnody |
threnody
|
| 61 | Aisha Haque | Frederick County Public Libraries | regnal |
regnal
|
| 62 | Levi Gould | Lakes Country Service Cooperative | aperçu |
aperçu
|
| 63 | Zoe Keith | Boulder Valley School District | hilum |
hilum
|
| 64 | Jeffrey Hsia | University of Maryland Eastern Shore | outré |
eutray
|
| 65 | Ekansh Rastogi | Orlando City SC | boutonniere |
boutonniere
|
| 66 | Faith Zapata | Riverside County Office of Education | appurtenances |
aperdances
|
| 67 | Advaith Balakrishnan | ComEd, An Exelon Company | Rastafarian |
Rastafarian
|
| 68 | Se'lah Sutton | Anne Arundel County Public Schools | vigneron | |
| 69 | Bryce Melgar | Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register | hawok |
hawok
|
| 70 | Jose Garcia | Lee County Spelling Bee | oolite |
owolite
|
| 71 | Henry Olsen | SNSB Regional Bee for Illinois and Texas | aniseikonia |
aniciconia
|
| 72 | Moksh Kanukurthy | Metropolitan Educational Cooperative Service Unit | Casimir effect |
Casimir effect
|
| 73 | Riya Koya | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis | deathin |
deathin
|
| 74 | Emily Doudna | Fairbanks North Star Borough School District | parallax |
paralax
|
| 75 | Saketh Madhusudhan | The Daily Item | coup de grace |
coup de grace
|
| 76 | Vikram Raju | The Denver Post | seneschal |
seneschal
|
| 77 | Victor Andrews | Oakland Schools Education Foundation | cartouches |
cartuches
|
| 78 | John Folsom | Riverside County Office of Education | gambol |
gambul
|
| 79 | Shrey Parikh | San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools | cygnet |
cygnet
|
| 80 | Lillian Wallace | Macomb Intermediate School District | reseau |
resau
|
| 81 | Akira Harris | European PTA | redingote |
redingote
|
| 82 | Aaron Kuebler | Orlando City SC | chasuble |
chasuble
|
| 83 | Sulayman Abdirahman | Boston Centers for Youth & Families | spiedini |
spiedini
|
| 84 | Avyay Kodali | Pepper Construction and Wight & Company | subrident |
subrident
|
| 85 | Pihu Sahai | The Herald Palladium | ferruginous |
ferruginous
|
| 86 | Luke LaValley | The County Press | sangfroid |
safroux
|
| 87 | Aliyah Alpert | Arizona Educational Foundation | nuciform |
nuciform
|
| 88 | Zain Malik | WFCU Credit Union | cordillera |
cordillera
|
| 89 | Japleen Dhillon | The Office of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools | naranjilla |
naranjilla
|
| 90 | Brielle Brown | South Central Service Cooperative | guichet |
gishay
|
| 91 | Daniel Lemus | Imperial County Office of Education | farouche |
farouche
|
| 92 | Aditi Shashidhara | Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas | ganache |
ganache
|
| 93 | Sam Passe | Southeast Service Cooperative | ennui |
ennui
|
| 94 | Nimal Murugan | Georgia Association of Educators | tulsi |
tulsi
|
| 95 | Kalleb Oliveira | The Martha's Vineyard Times | nacelle |
nacelle
|
| 96 | Mackenzie Harmon | Traverse City Record-Eagle | ptosis |
tosis
|
| 97 | Rumaysa Nadeem | ComEd, An Exelon Company | lobscouse |
loubscous
|
| 98 | Wolfgang Schaff | Boone-Winnebago Regional Office of Education | demulcent |
demulcent
|
| 99 | Vikram Reddy | The Meakem Group | ullage |
ullage
|
| 100 | Randell Rhoads | Anchorage Daily News | fetticus |
fedicus
|
| 101 | Amelia Glass | Cape Breton University | limaçon |
limaçon
|
| 102 | Dhroov Bharatia | Dallas Sports Commission | obnebulate |
obnebulate
|
| 103 | Sophia Lopez | SNSB Michigan and Ohio Regional Bee | clematis |
clematis
|
| 104 | Abhilash Patel | Orange-Ulster BOCES | trompe l'oeil |
trompe l'oeil
|
| 105 | Tarini Nandakumar | Sweet Success ATX | orogeny |
orogeny
|
| 106 | Arnav Parat | Amarillo College | octonocular |
octonocular
|
| 107 | Nam Nguyen | University of South Dakota | Guarnerius |
Guarius
|
| 108 | Aanya Shetty | Columbia Missourian | toque |
toque
|
| 109 | Rayeann Sharma | SNSB Michigan and Ohio Regional Bee | execrable |
execrable
|
| 110 | Ka'Mauri Best | The Wilson Times | epideictic |
epidictit
|
| 111 | Tyler Nuttall | South Jersey Spelling Bee | camarilla |
camarilla
|
| 112 | Logan Edwards | Carolina Panthers | sturnine |
sturnine
|
| 113 | Harini Murali | Press Communications | filar |
filar
|
| 114 | Addison Champion | The Shelby Star | nugatory |
nugatory
|
| 115 | Cyrus Law | Corning Rotary Club | grissino |
grissino
|
| 116 | Gustavo Brignoni | Eureka Enrichment & Learning Center | styptic |
styptic
|
| 117 | David Fyffe | North Rockland Central School District | gentilitial |
gentilicial
|
| 118 | Pranav Anandh | Delaware County Intermediate Unit | Gaia |
Gaia
|
| 119 | Lindsey Roberts | Dallas Sports Commission | azotea |
asotaya
|
| 120 | Luc Calagsing | Pee Dee Education Center | Ficus |
Ficus
|
| 121 | Ellette Whitcomb | Montana Television Network | balbriggan |
balbrigon
|
| 122 | Garrick Tam | The Albuquerque Journal | aquiclude |
aquaclude
|
| 123 | Paula Daglieri | The Valley Breeze | transhumance |
transhumance
|
| 124 | Andrew Yeager | Akron Beacon Journal | bathos |
bathos
|
| 125 | Eric Goroza | The Public Education Foundation | haupia | |
| 126 | Krishang Indaana | Bergen County Division of Cultural & Historic Affairs | fanfaronade |
fanfaronade
|
| 127 | Ava Anderson | Nyssa School District 26 | gules |
gules
|
| 128 | Akhil Giddaluri | Chattanooga Times Free Press | surcease |
surcease
|
| 129 | Ananya Rao Prassanna | Omaha Sports Commission | darnel |
darnel
|
| 130 | Jianna Marina | Diamond City Sports | crescive |
crescive
|
| 131 | Vale Esposito | ScholarSkills for STARS | bhangra |
bhangra
|
| 132 | Tessa Jones | Kiwanis Club of Abilene | tapetum |
tapetum
|
| 133 | Ariel Alhouwari | University of Memphis | poltroon |
poltroon
|
| 134 | Gabriel Fang | ScholarSkills for STARS | podagra |
podagra
|
| 135 | Yash Shelar | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | krausen |
krausen
|
| 136 | Alexis Reel | Carolina Panthers | maringouin |
maringouin
|
| 137 | Daanya Butt | The Daily Star | tryptophan |
triptophan
|
| 138 | Luna Gasevic | NDACS | reconnoiter |
reconnoiter
|
| 139 | Parker Pacifico | ESC of the Western Reserve | ailette |
ailette
|
| 140 | Joey Constantine | WFMJ Television, Inc. | maillot |
maillot
|
| 141 | Ananya Kannan | WITF: Public Media for Central Pennsylvania | transience | |
| 142 | Addy Veerendra | New Hampshire Union Leader | dhurrie |
dhurrie
|
| 143 | Frank Dumas IV | Duke Office of Durham & Community Affairs | embouchure |
ambushore
|
| 144 | Mujtaba Raja | Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs | benison | |
| 145 | Julianne Liliestedt | The Repository | wahine |
huahinee
|
| 146 | Eyianna Dunn | WHYY | crokinole |
croconal
|
| 147 | Mya Maijala | Three Rivers College | jasmone |
jasmone
|
| 148 | Kaitlyn Toole | Carolina Panthers | repoussage |
repoussage
|
| 149 | Echo Brock | USC Upstate | secant |
secant
|
| 150 | Leila Hu | Batavia Newspaper Corporation | tsukupin |
tsukepin
|
| 151 | Tyler Wagner | Finger Lakes Times | zabaglione |
zabbleyony
|
| 152 | Vivinsha Veduru | Texas Christian University | anicca |
anicca
|
| 153 | Makayla McGuire | Mosaic Life Care Foundation | sumpsimus |
sumpsimus
|
| 154 | Tallulah Green Hull | WHYY | graticule |
graticule
|
| 155 | Jane Ross | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | guayabera |
guayabera
|
| 156 | Andrew Smith | The Republican Herald | radicchio |
radicchio
|
| 157 | Avinav Prem Anand | Ohio University College of Business | jalousie |
jalousie
|
| 158 | Natalie Moeller | The Lima News | comanchero |
chomanchero
|
| 159 | Jeremy Landau | WHYY | sesquipedalian |
sesquipedalian
|
| 160 | Chris Dominick | WFMJ Television, Inc. | hoi polloi |
hoi polloi
|
| 161 | Marium Zahra | EPISD Education Foundation | Yeatsian |
Yeatsian
|
| 162 | Dahlia Cunningham | Pamplin Media Group | lacustrine |
lacustrine
|
| 163 | Shaylynn Dennis | Salem News, East Liverpool Review and The Morning Journal | sauger |
sauger
|
| 164 | Jessica Widodo | The Commercial Dispatch | dhole |
dhole
|
| 165 | Harini Jayakumar | Carolina Panthers | Bauhaus |
Bauhaus
|
| 166 | Abigail Lollis | Harnett County Schools | telamon |
telemon
|
| 167 | Jacob Theaker | The Times Leader | élan |
élan
|
| 168 | Michael Kolagani | Sweet Success ATX | saturnine |
saturnine
|
| 169 | Rex Dover | The Gaston Gazette | gesellschaft |
gesellschaft
|
| 170 | Antonia Antov | Raymore-Peculiar School District | funori |
funori
|
| 171 | Shivam Kolwalkar | The Post and Courier | mele |
mele
|
| 172 | Ella Pettyjohn | 2 News Oklahoma | gyokuro |
giacuro
|
| 173 | Jonathan Kelly | Tennessee Titans | Quaoar |
quoar
|
| 174 | Priana Khant | Pennsylvania State Education Association and Council for the Advancement of Public Schools | triduum |
triduum
|
| 175 | Lainey Gardner | The Blade | ad nauseam |
ad nosiam
|
| 176 | Brook Stewart | Mid-Continent Public Library | interpellate |
interpellate
|
| 177 | Tara Rakesh | WCPO 9 | gyascutus |
gyascutus
|
| 178 | Sahana Srikanth | WCPO 9 | surfeit |
surfeit
|
| 179 | Sophia Tun | The Fayetteville Observer | Pythagorean |
Pythagorean
|
| 180 | Parker Dodge | Educational Service Center of Lorain County | laulau |
laolao
|
| 181 | Rachel Xiang | Oklahoma City Thunder | Nethinim |
netineem
|
| 182 | Armaan Singhvi | Tennessee Titans | vinaigrette |
vinaigrette
|
| 183 | Riya Anumakonda | Carolina Panthers | catachresis |
catachresis
|
| 184 | Maximilian Hernandez | KRIS Communications | solenoid |
solinoid
|
| 185 | Nagi Aitbayeva | The Post-Standard | martinoe |
martinoe
|
| 186 | Chloe Lesher | The Marietta Times | ajimez |
ajimeth
|
| 187 | Isaac Imboden | Times Union | zeitgeist |
zeitgeist
|
| 188 | Andrew Macdonald | The Herald-Star | thalassic |
thalassic
|
| 189 | Kirsten Santos | Houston Public Media | tamari |
tamari
|
| 190 | Ben Rozema | A.C.E.S. | boutade |
beutade
|
| 191 | Kaiwen Soo | Park Hill School District | teratism |
terratism
|
| 192 | Rishi Jayakumar | Carolina Panthers | papeterie |
papeterie
|
| 193 | Micah Sterling | Watertown Daily Times | Devanagari |
Devanagari
|
| 194 | Katherine Connolly | Chester County Intermediate Unit | epenthesis |
epenthesis
|
| 195 | Kaitlyn Lee | Johnston County Public Schools | loess |
luss
|
| 196 | Miriam Campfield | Tennessee Titans | Novanglian |
Novanglian
|
| 197 | Nitya Kathiravan | Somerset County Library System | reveille |
reveille
|
| 198 | Ishika Varipilli | Houston Public Media | brume |
brume
|
| 199 | Dhagash Desai | Sidelines and Stages | realpolitik |
realpolitik
|
| 200 | Safi Sajid | ScholarSkills for STARS | corsair |
corsair
|
| 201 | Manvitha Sanjaya | Charleston Gazette-Mail | focaccia |
fococcia
|
| 202 | Charlotte Walsh | Fairfax County Council PTA | kathakali |
kathakali
|
| 203 | Aroosh Kaleem | The City Journals | notturno |
noturno
|
| 204 | Shreeya Sivakumar | Midland Reporter-Telegram | tokonoma |
tokonoma
|
| 205 | Vihaan Sibal | Rapoport Holdings, LLC | urushiol |
urushiol
|
| 206 | Saharsh Vuppala | Wyoming Systems Group of Businesses | ageusia |
ageusia
|
| 207 | Prince Parker Brown | Ramar Communications | kalimba |
kalimba
|
| 208 | Maya Jean Jadhav | Wisconsin State Journal | frazil |
frazil
|
| 209 | Harsha Dinesh | Loudoun County Public Schools | de rigueur |
de rigeur
|
| 210 | Trey Felton III | Richmond Times-Dispatch | Gurmukhi |
Gourmokey
|
| 211 | Hudson Himmerich | Sweetwater County BOCES | velouté |
valute
|
| 212 | Jie Laboriante | Rio Grande Valley AIM Media Texas | nudibranch |
nudibranch
|
| 213 | Nathaniel Rimocal | Laredo Morning Times | aporia |
aporia
|
| 214 | Elise Cournoyer | VTDigger | béchamel |
béchamel
|
| 215 | Leanna Gonzales | The Free Lance-Star | xerogel |
ziragel
|
| 216 | Bryan Milstead | Rockingham District Ruritans | Aglaia |
Aglaia
|
| 217 | Shadya Coureur | The Virgin Islands Daily News | Huallaga |
Huayaga
|
| 218 | Bryce Nguyen | The Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram | porwigle |
porwigle
|
| 219 | Maria Del Carmen Sanchez | The Ministry of Education | totipotency |
totipotency
|
| 220 | Gavin Maxey | Big Brothers and Big Sisters | ammonite |
ammonite
|
| 221 | Deetya Vuppala | Wyoming Systems Group of Businesses | taoiseach |
taoiseach
|
| 222 | Roy Seligman | The Ministry of Education | goanna |
goanna
|
| 223 | Surya Kapu | The City Journals | gudgeon |
gudgeon
|
| 224 | Graham Woodruff | The Roanoke Times | Teutonic |
Teutonic
|
| 225 | Grant Ward | Four Seasons YMCA | violaceous |
violetious
|
| 226 | Akash Vukoti | San Angelo Area Spelling Bee | beurre |
beurre
|
| 227 | Peyton DeMichele | InsideNoVa/Prince William | stanchion |
stanchion
|
| 228 | Cole Moore | Victoria Advocate | daguerreotype |
digereotype
|
| 229 | Jocelyne Francom | Southeast Education Service Center | internecine |
internasine
|
| 230 | Henry Mathewes | The Daily Progress and News Virginian | unguiculate |
unguiculate
|
| 231 | Harini Logan | The Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre Association | iatrogenic |
iatrogenic
|
| 232 | Sirjana Kaur | Town Hall Seattle | puerilely |
puerilely
|
| 233 | Pahrto Asadi | WHRO Public Media | genuflect |
genuflect
|
| 234 | Shijay Sivakumar | Ector County Independent School District | hiortdahlite |
hiortdahlite
|