Draft:96th Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee was a spelling bee competition that was held at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

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.

Field
Scripps National Spelling Bee's field of competition begins with 11 million students, in grades 8 and younger, who compete in local and regional spelling bee competitions to qualify for the Scripps Bee.

The 8 finalist spellers, and their respective sponsors, were the following students:

Rishabh Saha, 14, an 8th grader representing SNSB Region One Bee of Merced, California.

Shrey Parikh, 12, a 6th grader representing the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools of San Bernardino, California.

Aditi Muthukumar, 13, an 8th grader representing The Denver Post of Denver, Colorado.

Bruhat Soma, 12, a 7th grader representing the Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund of St. Petersburg, Florida.

YY Liang, 12, a 7th grader representing ScholarSkills for STARS of New Windsor, New York.

Ananya Rao Prassanna, 13, a 7th grader representing the Carolina Panthers of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Faizan Zaki, 12, a 6th grader representing the Dallas Sports Commission of Dallas, Texas.

Kirsten Tiffany Santos, 13, an 8th grader representing Houston Community College of Houston, Texas.

Final rankings
1st place

Bruhat Soma (spelled 29 words correctly in the spell-off)

2nd place

Faizan Zaki (spelled 20 words correctly in the spell-off)

3rd place (tie)

Shrey Parikh

Ananya Prassanna

5th place

Aditi Muthukumar

6th place

Kirsten Santos

7th place (tie)

Rishabh Saha

YY Liang

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
• brouette

• adelantado

• hyporcheme

• bisellium

• mycteric

• endecha

• sericin

• nyctalopia

• ascham

• wenzel

• cebell

• heautophany

• kwazoku

• panetière

• sagaie

• nachschläge

• exorhason

• porphyrio

• giclée

• ashwagandha

• puszta

• asarotum

• scintillante

• myrabalanus

• sciniph

• voussoir

• caixinha

• ramoneur

• aposiopesis

• abseil