The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee began on Tuesday, with over 200 spellers gathering in Washington D.C to compete for glory. The opening round thinned the group to 162, and there was plenty of drama. Show This year marked the first time in three years the bee returned in earnest due to the pandemic, and with a leaner field designed to mitigate risks, the words were absolutely brutal. Typically the opening rounds pitch a few softballs, but not in 2022 with spellers getting eliminated on words like “piloncillo,” “outré” and “tsukupin.” Here’s what you need to know if you’re picking up on the bee starting now. Where is the spelling bee up to?We have reached the semi finals, which will take place at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday night. The event began with 234 spellers on Tuesday, with the majority eliminated in the opening two rounds. Wednesday started with the quarter finals, wrapping up early this afternoon. This set the stage for where we’re at now. One of the remaining 42 spellers will take home the prize. What is the prize this year?The champion will win $50,000 from Scripps, $2,500 from Merriam-Webster as well as a reference library. In addition Encyclopedia Britannica is giving the champion a $400 set of books. However, even if you’re not the grand champion, there’s plenty to spell for. Everyone who makes the final on Thursday night will earn at least $2,000 with the runner-up winning $25,000. What are some of the most difficult words given so far?Of course this is subjective, but here are some examples of the words from the quarter finals that even seasoned spellers struggled with the most.
In short: These kids are way smarter than most of us when it comes to words. How do I watch?Unlike past years, the bee is not being aired on ESPN. Instead the event will be airing on ION, with the following times. It also airs via live stream at SpellingBee.com. The Bee program begins with millions of students at schools across the country. Want to become a part of our mission of illuminating pathways to lifelong curiosity, celebrating academic achievement and enriching communities? become a regional partner for 2023  take your students on a journey from the classroom to the nation’s capital For $175 per school, you'll receive all the word lists, competition instructions and supplementary materials to engage your students in classroom and school spelling bees. Your school's enrollment also provides your school champion with a pathway to compete at the next level of your regional program and beyond! enroll your school did you know the Bee has an official book club? This month, the Bee's Bookshelf selection is Outside Nowhere by Adam Borba. Enter our monthly sweepstakes to win one of five copies! And, click below to enter our Year of Books Sweepstakes - one winner will receive a copy of every 2023 Bee's Bookshelf selection as it's chosen each month! enter the year of books sweepstakes find out more about the beeSince 1925, children across America have participated in classroom, school and regional spelling bees with the hope of making it to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
learn more about Bee history, the Bee's full-time staff and 2022 champion Harini Logan did you know your students can learn while they play? Your students can play spelling and word meaning games with all 450 words from the 2022 School Spelling Bee Study List in the Word Club app for free! Harini Logan, 14, of San Antonio won the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee on June 2 in the competition's first-ever spell-off. (Video: Scripps National Spelling Bee) Listen Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Share Harini Logan, a 14-year-old from Texas, won the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee late Thursday night in a dramatic, unprecedented spell-off. Harini, who was competing in the bee for the fourth time, correctly spelled 21 words in a rapid-fire 90-second burst at National Harbor in Maryland, outlasting runner-up Vikram Raju, 12, of Colorado, who correctly spelled 15. The spell-off followed several heart-stopping rounds during which neither contestant was able to prevail. Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning.ArrowRight After she was announced the winner, Harini jubilantly held the trophy high over her head. “This is just such a dream. I’m overwhelmed,” she said. “I just had to take a deep breath and tell myself that I just go out there and do my best and whatever happens, happens.”
Vikram fought back tears and struggled to take a breath as LeVar Burton, the competition’s host this year, asked, “Will we see you next year?” Advertisement “Yes,” Vikram said. The three-day competition, held fully in-person for the first time since 2019, drew students from around the country and a few from abroad. Most were middle-school age — the cutoff is eighth grade — but this week two were 7. Many were first-time qualifiers, after winning local and regional bees; others, like Harini and Vikram, were veterans. Families, coaches and others sat in the audience at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center while, around the country, friends, relatives, teachers and classmates watched the live broadcast. Two hundred twenty-nine contestants had taken the stage in Tuesday’s preliminaries to spell a word from a 4,000-word list, answer a multiple-choice vocabulary question about a word on that list and then spell a word that could appear anywhere in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. Zaila Avant-garde wins 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, becoming bee’s first African American champion Some contestants answered quickly. Some drew it out, asking question after question until the screen behind them turned red, warning that only a few seconds remained. Their fingers fluttered to scribble invisible words such as “ikebana,” “meunière,” “wiliwili” and “obvertend” into their palms. Advertisement A misspelling prompted the ding of a bell: instant elimination. A correct spelling meant living to spell again. “Does this word contain the Greek prefix mono, meaning ‘one’?” Florida’s Juan Rondeau, 13, asked about “mononucleosis.” (It did.) “Does it come from the Latin ‘ic’, meaning ‘related to’?” Indiana’s Ishan Ramrakhiani, 14, asked about “ineradicable.” (Yes.) “Can I have the spelling?” California’s Vikrant Chintanaboina, 13, quipped of “suffrutescent.” (Ha ha, no.) In the vast hotel atrium, Charlotte Walsh, 13, of Arlington, Va., tried to relax with her father and younger brothers. A poised taekwondo brown belt who is home-schooled, she had been a competitive speller since age 6, and at 10 she had come to the bee and tied for 51st place. This time, Charlotte was number 202, so she wouldn’t be up until the evening. It was just after lunch now, and she was spending her free time studying words. She also carried a secret weapon: a lucky stuffed octopus with rainbow-colored tentacles named Gregory. Advertisement “I don’t think they’ll let me take him onstage,” she said. Like other family members, Gregory would watch from the audience. Harsha Dinesh, 13, of Ashburn, Va., had taken off from school to spend a week at the hotel with his father, Dinesh Chandrasekhar, 47. A giant Ferris wheel beckoned outside by the Potomac River, but on Tuesday afternoon the two were holed up in their hotel room, Chandrasekhar lobbing words and Harsha swinging. “Ready?” his father said. “Pallid.” “P-A-L-L-I-D.” “Reflexology.” “Tremulous.” “Malfeasance.” “Dopamine.” “Flabbergast.” Sometimes Harsha immediately knew the word. Sometimes he paused. “Emancipatory.” Harsha frowned. “For bigger words, take a step back,” his father said. “Wait. Read it in your mind. Do not rush.” He reminded Harsha of Braydon Syx, an Alabama contestant from that morning who had slowly, excruciatingly, repeated question after question as the seconds ticked away. “He did not rush,” Chandrasekhar said. “And he got it right.” Chandrasekhar admitted he was no Jacques Bailly, the University of Vermont classics professor who has been the competition’s official pronouncer since 2003 and enunciates each word with a vaguely Midwestern intonation. Advertisement “My accent is not that great. I have a thick Indian accent,” Chandrasekhar said. “I’m not schooled here, so no matter how hard I try, even after 23 years, it’s going to be hard for me to pronounce it the same way as people here do.” Harsha’s favorite words are those rooted in English. The worst is French, he said. “French freaks me out.” Charlotte, who was staying in the hotel with her parents and three younger brothers, had met spellers from far-flung places, some of whom she had befriended earlier online. By Tuesday afternoon, some of her friends had been eliminated. “I’m really sad about it, because they worked really hard,” she said. “You could know every other word in the dictionary, and if they give you the word you don’t know, that’s it and it’s done.” From 2020 | The Scripps spelling bee was canceled. So we decided to do our own. What kinds of words does she find hardest? Advertisement “I don’t want to jinx anything,” Charlotte said, “so I don’t want to say a specific one, because maybe I’ll go out on that one.” On Wednesday morning, spellers and their families posed for photos in front of a spelling bee mural in a lobby area and played with Legos set up beside a large screen simulcasting the competition. On a piece of poster paper, contestants wrote notes of encouragement to one another: “You are all champions!” “Give it your all! And be calm!” Eighty-eight spellers remained for the quarterfinals, but Harsha was not one of them: He had met his Waterloo the night before with the French “de rigueur,” leaving out the first “u.” Charlotte had advanced, correctly spelling “kathakali” and “beefeater” and defining “gubernatorial.” At a table near the Legos, three contestants in brightly patterned skirts were drawing pictures with colored pencils. Petra Sarpong, 12, N’Adom Darko-Asare, 11, and Annie-Lois Acheampong, 13, had flown in last weekend from Ghana, which has been sending spellers to the competition for 15 years, sponsored by the Young Educators Foundation, a nonprofit in Accra. In past years, Ghana had sent only one participant. This time three had qualified, after spending nine months meeting virtually and in person to work on spelling. “Weekends, holidays, mornings, evenings,” said Eugenia Tachie-Menson, YEF’s country director, adding that the work had benefits beyond the bee. “It helps your speaking, your literacy, your writing.” Advertisement All three are native English speakers but also know official spelling bee words with African roots, such as “kente,” a woven cloth, or “kwashiorkor,” a protein deficiency. N’Adom and Annie-Lois had been eliminated Tuesday, and Petra on Wednesday morning. Now the group would have six days to relax and visit the Washington Monument, the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the White House. They already had made a pilgrimage to Starbucks. “The whole point of their trip,” Tachie-Menson deadpanned. “It just has some kind of appeal, I don’t know why,” said Annie-Lois, who attends a boarding school that presumably does not do mango dragonfruit refreshers. A wave of applause rose from the TV monitor, and the girls perked up: Charlotte had correctly spelled “palapala,” a Hawaiian word for writing, becoming one of 48 contestants to advance to the semifinals. “We made friends with Charlotte!” N’Adom said. Three students from Ghana competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee took a break and performed One Lege, a dance from their homeland on June 1. (Video: Tara Bahrampour/The Washington Post) During a break, Bailly stopped by their table, and the girls jumped up to shake the pronouncer’s hand and take photos with him. They chatted with him about “one lege,” alternatively spelled “one legge,” which Tachie-Menson described as an African dance whose name is derived from pidgin English. Will there be a spelling bee 2023?The 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals will be broadcast on Thursday, June 1, 2023.
Where will the 2022 spelling bee be held?CINCINNATI – The Scripps National Spelling Bee will welcome 234 spellers to National Harbor, Maryland, from May 31-June 2 for the national rounds of competition and the first fully in-person Bee since 2019.
What time is spelling bee 2022?Starting at 8 a.m. EST, you can watch the spellers on stage on ESPN3.com and the WatchESPN app. Play along or watch the version with the words on the screen.
What are the hardest spelling bee in the world?Top Ten Most Brutal Spelling Bee Words. Soubrette. Year: 1953. ... . Albumen. Year: 1928. ... . Eudaemonic. Year: 1960. ... . Chiaroscurist. Year: 1998. ... . Autochthonous. Year: 2004. ... . Insouciant. Year: 1951. ... . Staphylococci. Year: 1987. ... . Foulard. Year: 1931. Origin: This word is from French.. |
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