A 12-year-old boy from Florida has won the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling 29 words in 90 seconds.
Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grade student from St. Petersburg, Florida was named the winner. The spelling bee took place in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The runner-up was a sixth grader, Faizan Zaki, from Dallas. The two boys faced off in a lightning-round tiebreaker match. They had to do that before they could compete against each other in a conventional round.
This year there was the fewest number of competitors in the final round in 14 years. Soma finished the round with 29 words spelled correctly. Zaki spelled 25 words but missed four.
According to the Scripps organization, the winning word was “abseil.” The word means “a descent in mountaineering by means of a rope looped over a projection above.”
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