When an average person joins the national spelling bee 

"And did you burn the witch afterwards" had me dieing.

This is why spelling bees are kind of nuts, because it literally becomes which kid has spent more time reading the dictionary, rather then anything useful.

"Can you use it in a sentence?" "The opposing team fell for our guetapens." "...Can you use it in a sentence that's relevant to our century?" *Ahem* "You've activated my guetapens card." "..." "..."

"If the next letter isn't T, somebody has to die." I feel you, man

I remember losing a spelling bee because the teacher pronounced decor as day-core and refused to use it in a sentence.

"Whatever happened to sounding it out? You guys juat said 'fuck that advice', right?" "That is correct." 😂😂😂

I love the fallback to reciting the alphabet. You’ll get to the right letter eventually! “What’s the origin?” “French”- Looks at the word. Yeah that checks out.

"Did you burn the witch afterwards"

Even as a french who knows the word guetapens, i would not have guessed it was that from the english pronounciation

Tbh i would have just killed everyone in the building and myself after hearing 'getapaw'. Also tiny Zach is a masterpiece.

As a French person, I'm amazed that this word exists in English. By the way it's actually two words, guet-apens :)

And this is how I learn that spelling competitions are a thing that exists. Thanks, Zach!

"This is why nobody likes the fucking French!" Had me dying bro😂

As a french speak, it's not pronounce "Getapaw" it's pronounce "Getapan".

I'm French and it took me like a full minute to understand what the word even was because of how it's pronounced in English lmaooo

Lesson learned. Cannot watch your videos and put my son to bed at the same time 😂. Instead of sleeping, he laughed because I couldn't stop.

“Is the past tense got a paw” 😂

this was truly a guetapens

apparently, it's An alteration of Middle French d'agais apensés, corresponding to aguet (“ambush”) + past participle of apenser (“conceive of”).

HE THOUGHT GET A PAW

This is literally how it goes. Like the judge is so focused on this one person and making them spell the word and all the other people are there listening and when this dude gets ONE letter off, the other kids are like OOH OK and go off of what the first dude said, change a letter and boom, they win or they lose and then the next student takes a try. BUT little do they know that the kid at the very end, who is also a middle child so he/she NEVER is noticed, is googling these words as they are. handed out and when everyone else is out for some dumb word like guetapens (idk if i spelled it right) this dude has the answer RIGHT there cause he took advantage of the situation

1:50 this is a serious warning 😂

I wanna see the spelling Bee with either A a Scottish man with a HEAVY accent as the one who says the words to spell or B French

as a french person myself i would have gotten this one wrong...

Damn that’s ending was really like America during the Industrial Revolution

The winning word from Scripps National Spelling Bee 2012

Haven't laughed at one of your vida this hard in a while

According to Wiktionary, it's a French word, and not really used in English.

Even my phone doesn’t know what the fuck a Guetapen is and even outlines it as incorrect and can’t find any replacement for it.

"And did you burn the witch afterwards" had me rolling 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"did you burn the witch afterwords" epic line.

America and England are the only countries with a language so horrible that knowing it is not only a competition, but a prestigious event that defines people as geniuses.

This and the parenting like RU-vid TOS video are probably my two favorite Zach Star videos this man is genius I love it

Guetapens

That's why I like Hindi so much! Any random word coming out of your mouth can be put down on paper by a less than average adult! I realized this super power very late though!

That is not fair, Guetapens is a trap!

Thought it would be shit but it was hilarious

And the bit about the a girl winning is real!

Spelling bee 0 deaths speedrun

"Can you spell this useless word you will never use again in your entire life? No? You're more worthless than the word."

Reminds me of when i was in a spelling bee one time and my first word was onomatopoeia and the other person had Wednesday and then the next round I had tyrannosaurus and they had February

Cardi B - Money, jaiden animations - sports and snares - that one story about the soldier lured by a girl whistling

Imagine "rendezvouz"

As a singular person I can confirm *nobody* likes the french.

I was once in the national spelling bee and knew the word, but watching this and the process made me bust out laughing.

this face though 00:44 and this 1:28"Guetapens"

Best thing is that it's not even how we pronounce it in French

This is by far my favorite video that you made lmao!!!

I'm convinced none of these are real words. Hell, when I took the GRE, I was convinced most of the words were made up and they weren't half as bad... and they were multiple choice.

That's like asking the average Austrian nowadays how to spell "haute volée" and then singing the first line of this song of R. Fendrich. I never got it until I looked it up on Google. "mia san di oot wolee, mia hom in iwaschmee ..." --- A spelling contest in Viennesse would be funny as for today the language is in a zombie state and has no spelling at all so you have a hard time finding a pop song. So probably looking for "we are the haute volée" or "wir sind die haute volée" makes more sense than looking for "mia san di oot wolee"

I remember in 4th grade losing to some word with multiple double consonants and vowels and then the next girl got fucking "ingot" and struggled but got it right

I remember in elementary school, they made us enter the spelling bee, regardless of if we wanted to do it or not. I knew I was a horrible speller and was out by round two.

after this vid, most googled search term is gonna be? guetapens!

as soon as he said it was french i was over it

"First Try" 😂

yeah what did happen to sound it out? the french didn't get the memo and english couldn't be bothered to make words so it cheated off literally every language ever.

3:03 is fuckin crazy

I laughed so fucking hard,.....

Hi Zack, what’s your opinion on spaghetti?

The closed caption spells it as "getapaw" 😅

lol thanks, now I can use that word to sound smart Also I died laughing at that part where he shot the kid for spelling guetapens correctly

I my spelling bees they always gave us a really long list of words to study that they were going to use So that really helped me with random words like this 😆

Okay now spell Icup 😂

lmao. this earned you a sub.

I mean can you really blame him 💀

Even the subtitles can't spell it 😂

After finishing the video I opened google to check if this is actually a real word and it was just at this moment, that I realised, I had completely forgotten how on earth you spell that word.

Funny how countries with languages where spelling matches pronunciation do not have these competitions.

Je savais même pas qu’il y avait un s à la fin. Lol

This is exactly what I would do

3:11 he did not infact, kill himself

Are you sure this is an english word? I only found a french pronounciation.

Honestly, without having seen it before there is absolutely no way your spelling that word, and that actually still holds up because the 14 year old girl had seen it before.

to whom it may concern, go and google "why is english spelling so weird?" (and I'm sure i've made spelling mistakes in this sentence, non-native speaker here).

In Italian we have a thing called pronounce it how you read it, is pretty cool not gonna lie

I never got these American spelling bees. Who would want to go on a stage to spell a word no one have used in their everyday use? Especially in a different language. Thank god we don't do that in Denmark

"💯"

How do u get so much chances

Fun fact : The word has an hyphen in the middle in french so english made it simpler

I can confirm, nobody likes the French, not even French xD

as a french (who cant spell the word), its really funny

Zach star my oh my

That was really funny

brings back memories of when i went to a city-level spelling bee in 6th grade. i got out in the 5th round because they gave me some obscure chinese loan word that wasn't even on the study sheet. cue my salt when the rest of the competitors proceeded to get extremely easy stuff like "gallows" the whole rest of the way 🥲

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I'm getting PTSD from my Grade 6 spelling bee.

The funny thing is that everytime one english show aired dubbed in my country and there was a spelling bee it was always so weird because I was like "Can't they just hear the word and say the letters???" but then you learn english and you finally get it. Everytime I have to write the past tense of teaching, thinking or "even though" I just wing it

G-wiz, they clearly make up words with complicated spellings just to screw with people. I can respect that.

Zach: "Whatever happened to sound it out?!" Silent letters: **laughing maniacally**

For real those kids have +10 intelligence in their SPECIAL stats while wearing an item that gives +2 more

That's the problem with a language that has Germanic, French, Danish and even some Celtic influence. Every combination of letters in English can make three or four different sounds depending on which language that word comes from. Like you can laugh at us French but ''guetapens'' actually is spelled exactly how it's pronounced as far as we're concerned.

l lost entering a national spelling bee TWICE because of the word "Tuff" I didn't even know there WAS a a word with similar pronunciation. To this day, I absolutely despise that word

I, myself, have not once stepped through the alphabet trying to finish of the cross of two inconceivable clues in the nyt crossword. Definitely not once.

"You're saying it wrong" as a Frenchman I have to agree there 😅

0:59 that bwaaadabababa is pure GOLD

As a wise man once said "Igowallah!".

im convinced zach star is a funny person (dude i love your skits soooooo much)

bro that “witch” line killed me 😂

"Can you spell it?" "No." "Exactly. Cuz it's not a word." Made me laugh.

Bro may have entered a spelling bee in English but he choose to speak facts