Playing this game of Hangman will reveal that many of the "correct" words to be identified are not in fact correctly spelled words at all. They are all spellings given that eliminated people from the Scripps National Spelling Bee. (The ding that sounds when completing a word is indicative of the bell that sounds when a speller has misspelled a word at the Bee.)

Indexing into the name of the eliminated speller by the score earned in order of elimination gives the message: BERNADETTE MIAO'S ROUND TWO WORD. In 2015, Bernadette Miao's second round word was PARADOX, the answer.