Columbia’s Aanya Shetty aced the preliminary round Tuesday afternoon in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Aanya correctly spelled the word P-A-N-N-O-S-E, which means “having the ...

Bruhat Soma was named the winner of the prestigious spelling competition; his winning word was 'abseil' Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Bruhat Soma, a 12-year-old seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, has won the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee after an astonishing spell-off with one other contestant, Faizan Zaki, 12, of Plano, Texas ...

Aanya Shetty clinched her third championship title at the 7th annual Columbia Missourian Regional Spelling Bee during an unusual tiebreaking spell off. With 90 seconds to spell as many words as ...

Bruhat Soma, 12, of Florida won the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night after defeating all seven other finalists and beating his final competitor in the Bee’s second-ever spell-off.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with The American Spectator. The team behind the Scripps National Spelling Bee whacked a hornet’s nest when it ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is here, representing one of the most vigorous - and prestigious - academic competitions in America. Unsurprisingly, a competition as renowned as the national ...

OXON HILL, Md. – All Bruhat Soma does is win. Soma entered the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee with three smaller spelling bee victories already under his belt in 2024, and the 12-year-old from St.