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96th Scripps National Spelling Bee
2024 American spelling bee From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee was a spelling bee competition that was held at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.[1]
The 2024 bee welcomed 245 spellers from the United States and its territories, Canada, Ghana, and The Bahamas. After competing in preliminary, quarterfinal and semi-final rounds on May 28, and May 29, 2024, the field of competition narrowed to 8 finalists who competed on the night of May 30, 2024.[2][3]
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Competition
The bee aired on Scripps-owned networks ION and Bounce TV.
The competition featured preliminary, quarterfinal, semifinal, and final rounds. The winner of the final round, Bruhat Soma, won a cash prize of $50,000.[4]
Field
The Scripps National Spelling Bee starts off with regional or school spelling bees for grades 8 and under. More than 240 spellers competed in the 2024 national bee.[5][6]
- Bruhat Soma, 12, from Florida (champion) [winning word: abseil]
- Faizan Zaki, 12, from Texas (2nd place)
- Ananya Rao Prassanna, 13, from North Carolina
- YY Liang, 12, from New York
- Adithi Muthukumar, 13, from Colorado
- Shrey Parikh, 12, from California
- Rishabh Saha, 14, from California
- Kirsten Tiffany Santos, 13, from Texas
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Word list championship round
- desmotrope
- eustachian
- febrifuge
- habitude
- immanent
- morbilliform
- oosorption
- plagiotropic
- jurisprudential (word meaning)
- tesseract (word meaning)
- sine qua non (word meaning)
- velocipede (word meaning)
- liminal (word meaning)
- modus operandi (word meaning)
- grunion
- peccant
- indumentum
- saltigrade
- sphenography
- apophasis
- gobiesocid
- molysite
- dehnstufe
- martaban
- avahi
- Jumano
- Lillooet
- Okvik
- tennesi
- daena
- kanin
- Hoofddorp
- murrina
- nicuri
Spell-off championship round
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References
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