What Is The Most Commonly Misspelled Word In Massachusetts?

MASSACHUSETTS – The Scripps National Spelling Bee is underway, and let's hope for the next generation's sake the competition is fiercer than your average Google user. The internet giant released its list of the most commonly misspelled word in each state for 2017, and Massachusetts managed to avoid a major gaffe two years in a row.

In 2016, Bay Staters couldn't spell one word even if it was staring at them from every highway sign, license plate or driver's license...which it was. Yes, in a cruel twist that even Mississippi managed to avoid, "Massachusetts" was the word Massachusetts had the most trouble with.

Speaking of licenses, say hello to your 2017 champion. According to Google, "license" has dethroned "Massachusetts" as the most frequently misspelled word in the Commonwealth. And there may be a reasonable explanation why.

In the United States, "license" is used in both noun and verb forms, whereas many other English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, spell it "license" as a noun and "licence" as a verb. It's a far less humiliating blunder than misspelling your own state.

Not to throw stones from a now-plexiglass house, but Wisconsin took home that dubious distinction this year.

Apparently the country's "Mary Poppins" superfans are confined to West Virginia and Connecticut, as "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" tripped probably more than a few people up in two states that strangely reported a dearth of precocity as well.

New York still can't solve its image problem, struggling with "beautiful" for the second year in a row. New Jersey and Washington, D.C. should stick to numerals, flubbing "twelve" and "ninety," respectively, and Hawaii likely won't have to worry about overpopulation anytime soon, since "people" is a word they're not familiar with.

New Hampshire, meanwhile, still hasn't solved its "diarrhea" problem.