Summary of Round Five
(Click on the speller's name for a summary of words given.)
| No. | Speller | Sponsor | Word | Spelling Given | Error |
| 17. | Chan, Brendan |
The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California) | barathrum | barythrum | E |
| 19. | Lent, Rebecca |
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) | periosteal | periosteal | |
| 23. | Buddiga, Pratyush |
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) | thremmatology | thremmatology | |
| 24. | Tadipatri, Ramya |
New Haven Register (New Haven, Connecticut) | ortstein | ortstein | |
| 48. | Graves, Kaley |
The News-Gazette (Champaign, Illinois) | putsch | pusch | E |
| 56. | Brooks, John |
The Quincy Herald-Whig (Quincy, Illinois) | sortileger | sortilegr | E |
| 62. | Hammes, Nathan |
Topics Newspapers (Fishers, Indiana) | ramellose | ramellose | |
| 71. | Bolt, Erik |
South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) | besom | besom | |
| 85. | Nichols, Molly |
Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine) | chamfer | champher | E |
| 119. | Thampy, Mallika |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) | quattrocento | quattrocento | |
| 136. | Miller, Catherine |
Times Union (Albany, New York) | jordanon | jordanon | |
| 141. | Goldstein, JJ (Joy) |
Long Island Jewish World (Rockville Centre, New York) | resile | resile | |
| 144. | Zyman Carrasco, Erik |
Daily News (New York, New York) | causerie | causerie | |
| 158. | Moch, Kevin |
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota) | echinate | echinate | |
| 163. | Hessenauer, Michael |
The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) | verticil | vertacil | E |
| 196. | King, Lindsay |
The Providence Journal (Providence, Rhode Island) | limitrophe | limotroph | E |
| 199. | Reynolds, April |
The Greenville News (Greenville, South Carolina) | macumba | macumba | |
| 204. | Brand, Sarah |
The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee) | orpiment | orpament | E |
| 206. | Nalley, Steven |
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) | straiten | straiten | |
| 207. | French, Alexandra |
The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) | nephelognosy | nephalognosy | E |
| 211. | Gunturi, Sai |
The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) | jacamar | jacamar | |
| 238. | Mahoney, Trevor |
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin) | sculpin | sculpan | E |
| 239. | Wade, Andy |
Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia) | guttate | guttate | |
| 247. | Kadam, Samira |
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) | epiphora | epyphora | E |
| 250. | Gassman, Mattias |
The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) | chela | kela | E |
