Can you spell better than a sixth-grader? Take the test

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Can you spell better than a sixth-grader? Take the test

Tribune-Review | Friday, June 2, 2017 6:06 p.m.

The final two spellers Rohan Rajeev, 14, from Edmond, Okla., and Ananya Vinay, 12, from Fresno, Calif., right, applaud during the finals of the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, June 1, 2017.

Ananya Vinay, 12, earned herself more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. The sixth-grader outclassed her better-known competitors and survived a long duel with 14-year-old Rohan Rajeev to win the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday.

291 spellers took the Preliminaries Test. Could you have passed?

Take the test here and find out.

Here's a sample from the event:

#speller264 Ananya Vinay spelled the word sceloporus (any of a genus of small iguanid lizards) correctly #spellingbee #D in BeePlayAlong

— Scripps National Spelling Bee (@ScrippsBee) June 2, 2017

Of course, CNN can't resist having some fun with Vinay and President Trump's "covfefe" gibberish:

President Trump's typo "covfefe" stumps America's new spelling bee champ https://t.co/7W7WuikHxr pic.twitter.com/5qIM8jfvwz

— CNN (@CNN) June 2, 2017

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