Reuters, 1 June – Dev Shah, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida, won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. He correctly spelled “psammophile,” an organism that prefers sandy soils, in the contest’s 15th round.
In the fourteenth round, he defeated Arlington, Virginia, eighth-grader Charlotte Walsh 14, who came in second when she misspelled “daviely,” a term with Scottish roots indicating listlessly.
Shah, a Morgan Fitzgerald Middle School student, quickly and adequately spelled “bathypitotmeter” in the fourteenth round. However, according to the spelling bee rules, he still needed to get one more word to win.
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Shah receives $50,000 cash from the bee’s sponsor, E.W. Scripps Co (SSP.O), along with additional cash awards and reference materials from Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica. He was declared the winner in a burst of confetti before his parents and other family members joined him on stage.
The competition’s official dictionary is The Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. Dev, who enjoys playing the cello, reading, tennis, and solving math issues, tied for 51st place in the 2019 spelling bee and 76th place in the 2021 competition.
He was one of 11 participants, ages 11 to 14, who won the three-day competition held at National Harbor, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., and progressed to the finals. The other competitors included 220 people.
94 girls, 134 boys, and two spellers who identify as nonbinary made up the entire field this year. One rival did not recognize their gender.
The live telecast of the bee. The suspense is increased by TV commentators who narrate the action as competitors struggle to remember the proper spellings for frequently cryptic terms.
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BREAKING: Fourteen-year-old Dev Shah wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee with the word ‘psammophile.’ https://t.co/kTKn6lLhfl
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 2, 2023
Last year, Harini Logan, 14, of San Antonio, Texas, won the competition by adequately spelling 22 words in a spell-off that lasted 90 seconds. It was the first time since the competition’s inception in 1925 that a spell-off determined the winner.
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