Can you spell it on the fly? Massachusetts has a new ranking as one of the hardest states to spell and say.

The study conducted by Preply says Massachusetts is a muddle of syllables and tricky double consonants. The word is made up of 13 letters, four syllables, the letter S four times and three different vowels. That can make it a mouthful.

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Watch the video atop this story to see what happened when we went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — on Massachusetts Avenue — for a quiz on spelling the Bay State's name.

Andrea Ronen, a speech language pathologist at Metrowest Medical Center, broke down why the word is a such a workout to the mouth: "The different sounds, whether you have that vibration of your v

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