Can you spell marocain? That’s the winning word from the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee, which was won by 7th grader Ananya Vinay— who also happens to be an avid Quizlet user.
Since she credited Quizlet with being such a big help in getting ready for last year’s Bee, we asked Ananya if she would be willing to make exclusive study sets to help this year’s batch of super spellers, and she was gracious enough to say yes. (Thank you, Ananya!)
Study with Ananya's sets
Just in time to keep up with the contestants of this year’s National Spelling Bee, Ananya is sharing her own study sets on Quizlet that helped her take home the 2017 title. She's already released a beginning/intermediate set and will be publishing an advanced set on May 23rd — so make sure to check her Quizlet profile then!
So you can study just like Ananya did, each set will be equipped with the word, pronunciation, part of speech (i.e., verb, noun, adjective, etc.), definition and memory tips, as well as a representative picture and audio recording of the pronunciation.
A preview of one of Ananya's sets.
Ananya’s top tips
Learning words by studying them on Quizlet is great way to get ready for any spelling bee, but winning takes more than rote memorization. Here are Ananya’s other tips for aspiring champs:
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Don’t discount the power of definitions. Many students who are looking to quickly ace a spelling test focus only on the spelling and pay no attention to what the words mean. Understanding definitions, origins and roots is vital for making complex words stick in your brain long-term.
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Practice (and organization) makes perfect. Ananya created a grid for each set of 250 words she would study in a Quizlet set. She divided them by phonetic pronunciation, part of speech, language of origin, definition and a column dedicated to “Ananya Tips” – an interesting tidbit about the word that would help her remember it. For instance, for “mnemonic” she wrote “This word comes from Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. Her hair was as long as her memory.”
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Timing is an individual game. Once Ananya spent an hour with a study set, she only needed to review it two or three more times to fully commit it to memory, but just because this method worked for Ananya doesn’t mean it’s a universal tactic. Everyone memorizes and learns at their own pace, so figure out what works for you and stick with that groove once you find it.
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Spell things out for yourself – literally! For words with certain language origins, Ananya gave herself language hints within her study sets. For instance, for the word “lokshen,” a Yiddish word derived from Russian, Ananya reiterated in her notes that this word is spelled just like it sounds because the “k” sound is spelled with a “k” in Russian. For “haiku,” she noted that the rules of Japanese are kept fairly constant, with the ī sound spelled with “ai.”
Do you have other good tips for using Quizlet to help get ready for spelling tests? Share in the comments below! And good luck to everyone participating in this year’s national bee. 🐝
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mys student joel wants to sign up but how do you sign
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those are some super helpful tips
thank yu anunyia have a good tay
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Cool. Looks like I am going to become a better speller now!
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Congratulations!
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these words...
no offense but r too easy to spell...
like the word marocain, even if u dont know what it means or have never seen it before, its still pretty trivial to spell
i mean, these words arent even really hard at all
Dude, it’s about the stress and tension up there. Just to see if you can handle it. Anyway, depends on how much experience you have in the English language for you to justify the difficulty of those words. This article is a great helper. Thanks!
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Wow! Great job!
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The set sounds pretty cool. I'll make sure to check it out sometime! By the way, great job to Ananya for winning the spelling bee-I almost got there as I was in the regionals last year, so kudos to her!
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I wish I could spell as well as her. I can barely spell anything. :(
how can you win with the word marocain I mean like I just asked a 7 year old to try to spell it and they got it right.
This is a handy article, and I use all of these tips myself! I'm going to compete in this year's National Spelling Bee. :) To those who say that "marocain" is an easy word to spell, it isn't really. So much of how you choose to spell a word is based on language of origin, and "marocain" is from French. If you heard that word and didn't know how to spell it, yet you knew the rules of how to spell words from French, you might be tempted to put an e on the end or spell it "mairocain." It's harder than it looks when you have done a bee before, and as someone who has one 3 spelling bees (and got 2nd in one and 4th in another), take it from me.
Not trolling or anything, I just get annoyed when people say it's easy lol.
Those look like some pretty hard words. Have you watched "Akeelah and the bee?" It is a fun movie about a girl and a spelling bee. You should watch it!
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Thank you Ananya! I’ve been to the NSB before and really look up to you! This list will be a great addition to my study resources!
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nice job girl!! GIRLS RULE THE WORLD !!!! WE SPELL THE WORLD!111 WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO
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all these comments are top notch. lots of mature people over the age of 9 posting meaningful comments
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The people don't know, what she knows.
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to be the champion at national spelling bee
how is everyone's day? im bored in class so
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i won 5 times in a spelling bee
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if you're gonna have a national spelling bee use words like "generalissimo" or harder words
Congrats!
Also, the Scripps-Howard website (search Google to find has information). Try YouTube to see further information and video clips from previous years. In addition to: "Akeelah and the Bee" (movie/documentary-like)-- I suggest the movie/documentary: "Spellbound". I also recommend the website: "phontitristy".
WOW great job! 😀
wish I could commit words to memory like that, wow!
Great job, Ananya!
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