2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee
May 30 and 31, 2007

Summary of Round 5
(Click on the speller's name for a summary of words given.)
No. Speller Sponsor Correct
Spelling
Spelling
Given
Error
1. Pyo, Grace The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama difficile difecile  E
5. Horton, Jonathan Arizona Educational Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona pteridology pteridology   
8. Loon, Anjanet The Nassau Guardian, Nassau, The Bahamas rhodochrosite rhodocrosite  E
11. O’Dorney, Evan Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, California affiche affiche   
12. Thomas, Tia Sierra Telephone/Mountain Home School, Oakhurst, California sagittal sagittal   
14. Manning, Emma Daily News Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California gardez guardet  E
17. Rana, Maheen Record Searchlight, Redding, California lomatine lomatin  E
19. Kao, Josephine The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California calenture calenture   
20. Song, Justin The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, California diastrophe diastrophe   
25. Wang, Cody Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta, Canada soubise soubise   
27. Park, Soohyun National Post, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada exophthalmic exophthalmic   
28. Gartke, Nate Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada tentaculocyst tentaculocyst   
37. Dong, Anqi The Star Phoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada psilosis psilosis   
39. Stanbridge, Chris The Telegram, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador melotrope mellotrope  E
41. Unger, Hailey The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada impuissance impuiscence  E
45. Gopalakrishnan, Maithreyi Daily Camera, Boulder, Colorado castrensian castrentian  E
47. Henares, Joseph New Haven Register, New Haven, Connecticut furfuraceous furfuraceous   
56. Bressler, Liam Naples Daily News, Naples, Florida Plattdeutsch Platdeuche  E
59. Zhang, Claire The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida burelage burelage   
73. Sloan, Rose Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois carnassial carnasial  E
77. Benjamin, Alex The Daily Journal, Kankakee, Illinois staphylotomy stapholotomy  E
90. Mishra, Sameer Journal and Courier, Lafayette, Indiana didymous didymous   
91. Yeh, Michael The Kokomo Tribune, Kokomo, Indiana sutler suttler  E
97. Aouad, Kennyi The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Indiana truttaceous trutacious  E
101. Bish, Regina Jamaica Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica chromotrichial chromotrichial   
102. Shivashankar, Kavya The Olathe News, Olathe, Kansas porphyry porphyry   
112. Roper, Selena Capital-Gazette Newspapers, Annapolis, Maryland bialy bialy   
119. Baker, Izaak The Recorder, Prince Frederick, Maryland melioidosis melioidosis   
122. Radakrishnan, Anjithaa The Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts capilotade capillotade  E
125. Shekhar, Akshat The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Massachusetts tufoli tuffoli  E
135. Vijayakumar, Nithya The Oakland Press, Oakland, Michigan grego grego   
146. Spencer, Connor The Examiner, Independence, Missouri ooporphyrin ooporphyrin   
148. Rouse, Caroline St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri beccafico beccafico   
151. Harmsworth, Sarah Lee Newspapers of Montana, Billings, Montana reblochon reblechon  E
152. Mirza, Sarah Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska strigil strigil   
161. Evans, Matthew The Albuquerque Tribune, Albuquerque, New Mexico azotea azotea   
169. Kohli, Prateek Long Island Jewish World, Rockville Centre, New York onychomycosis onychomycosis   
180. Weir, Kate The New Zealand Listener, Wellington, New Zealand jardiniere gardiniere  E
182. Whaley, Gideon The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina cenacle senecal  E
183. Upshaw, Grace The Daily Record, Dunn, North Carolina terpsichore terpsichory  E
185. Lay, Andrew The Gaston Gazette, Gaston, North Carolina negus negus   
189. Wright, Josiah Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem, North Carolina ptilopod tylopod  E
193. Shoji, Marissa The Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, Ohio butyraldehyde butyraldehyde   
194. Remer, Scott The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio stramineous stromineous  E
207. Girbino, Michael The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio retiarius riciarius  E
210. Haiduk, Bruce Tulsa World, Tulsa, Oklahoma corydora choridera  E
212. Clark, Shelley Portland Tribune, Portland, Oregon hussar huzzar  E
226. Bader, Lina Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania dysbarism dysbarism   
228. Nguyen, Rosa The Valley Breeze, Cumberland, Rhode Island umami umami   
235. Rehberger, Rebecca Rapid City Journal, Rapid City, South Dakota siphonogamous siphonogamus  E
245. Chyao, Amy The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas drepanocytosis drepanocytosis   
246. Gupta, Samir El Paso Times, El Paso, Texas biwa biwa   
247. Patel, Samir Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas clevis clevice  E
249. Ajieren, Brian Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas scherzando scherzando   
250. Soriano, Raymond Laredo Morning Times, Laredo, Texas Menckenese Menckenese   
258. Marcel, Julisa The Virgin Islands Daily News, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands suimate suimate   
262. Weber, Lucy The Burlington Free Press, Burlington, Vermont araneiform areneiform  E
274. Venkat, Abhinav Potomac News, Woodbridge, Virginia ciguatera ciguatera   
285. Jacobson, Isabel Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin lekvar lekvar