135 Hard Spelling Bee Words We Are Very Glad We Don’t Have To Spell Out Loud

Before we begin with the official introductions to our list of hard spelling bee words, let’s remember one viral video from a couple of (okay, okay, more like ten) years ago.

You know, the one where a kid is asked to spell numnah (a thing you put under a horse’s saddle), and he’s all super confused and asks to repeat the word several times just to be sure it wasn’t what he thought he had heard. Disclaimer - he felt it was numbnut. Google it if you haven’t seen it - it’s absolutely brilliant.

Okay, with that story out of the way, we can return to our list of the hardest spelling bee words. And boy, aren’t we glad we didn’t have to spell these words in front of an audience when we were kids! In fact, we are even more pleased that we don’t have to do it as adults.

Although we were compiling this list, we took a mental note of some exceedingly cool words to be used in situations where we’d like to seem fancier-than-thou. In hopes, of course, that we won’t have to spell them afterward.

But, if you find us using words like malfeasance or antediluvian, just know that almighty Grammarly made sure we got them right.

As far as introductions go, we think this one did its job, and now it is about time to check out the hardest words to spell we’ve rounded up in this article. Since a better half of them are rarely used anymore, we’ve supplied them with short explanations so you’ll know the proper instances to use these spelling bee words.

Once you are done checking out the list, rank the submissions so the hardest words to spell find their way to the top!