Photos of students competing for the Scripps National Spelling Bee trophy
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Logan Bailey, 12, of Houston, Texas, reacts during the final round of the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, Thursday, May 28, 2026.
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Shrey Parikh has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in a lightning-round tiebreaker. Shrey is a 14-year-old from Rancho Cucamonga, California. He finished third in 2024 but lost his school bee last year when he was battling a fever. He has dominated the bee circuit since. That included winning several online competitions against many of the same kids he outlasted this week in the nation’s capital. On Thursday night he turned a tense, high-quality final into a blowout. He raced through the 90-second spell-off and got 32 words right, a record for the format. Scripps later announced that “bromocriptine" was his winning word.
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