Watch: CNN host makes racially insensitive remark to Indian girl who won spelling bee

Alisyn Camerota, host of CNN's New Day, made a racially insensitve remark to a 12-year-old guest who had just won a national spelling bee while interviewing her on-air on Friday.

Camerota was interviewing Ananya Vinay, a young girl of Indian origin, about her recent win Thursday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition, one of the most recognized spelling competitions in the U.S. Camerota and her co-host Chris Cuomo jokingly asked her to spell the word "covfefe."

"Covfefe" is the unintentional typo made by President Donald Trump during an unfinished tweet that was accidentally published on Twitter. The word had become an internet meme since then, spawning a seemingly endless amount of jokes, including one from Trump himself.

Vinay attempted to spell the word, but left out the "v." Camerota corrected her, calling it a "nonsense word," then remarked to Vinay about not being sure if the root of the word comes from Sanskrit, "which is probably what you're used to using."

While Vinay's family origin is from India, she is actually from Fresno, California, according to Time.

Furthermore, Vinay's family is of Kerala-origin according to South Asian news site Manorama. The primary language spoken in Kerala is Malayalam, not Sanskrit. Sanskrit is only spoken by less than 1 percent of Indians today, usually by Hindu priests during religious ceremonies.

Vinay was the first person to outright win the competition since 2013, with subsequent endings of the spelling bee ending in draws, and the 13th consecutive Indian-American to win the competition.