You tell us, New Jersey.

What's the fascination with the word "twelve"?

And why can't anyone spell it?

Google's data divers looked at which words residents of every state routinely need the help of a search engine to spell.

A Google Trends map of the most searched for spellings by state.

For four states, it's "pneumonia." For another two states, it's "Hallelujah."

For Garden Staters, it's "twelve."

Twelve ....what? Drummers drumming? Apostles? Angry Men? O'clock-rock?

Besides being puzzling, our stump-the-state spellchecker word is also only six letters long, so kind of embarrassing as well.

However, surely the embarrassment (two Rs, two Ss) trophy goes to Wisconsin, whose residents routinely Googled how to spell...Wisconsin. Expect the trash-talking from Minnesota to have already commenced.

Proud cheeseheads can redeem themselves by pointing out their state name is Native American - ergo trickier to spell - and longer than the words that stump residents of other states.

For example, Idaho: "Quote." Oregon: "Sense." North Carolina: "Angel." Mississippi: "Nanny." (And not Mississippi?!?)

Google compiled its data based on people who typed in the phrase, "How do you spell...?" It's from 2017.

Google put together its list on the eve of the Scripps National Spelling Bee that takes place this week in Washington, D.C.

While it's somewhat poignant that folks in five states are bewildered by the spelling of word "beautiful," it's nice to know they have beauty on their minds. Unlike New Hampshire, whose word is "diarrhea."

Or poor South Dakota, whose spell-challenged word is a bad joke just sitting there atop a T-ball stand: "College."

Kathleen O'Brien may be reached at kobrien@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @OBrienLedger. Find NJ.com on Facebook.