2024

The 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee took place on May 30th, 2024. It was held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, and 245 spellers participated.

Bruhat Soma won this year by spelling an astounding 29 words correctly in just 90 seconds in the Bee’s second-ever Spell-off.

About the 96th Bee

Champion

Bruhat Soma

Tampa, Florida

Bruhat Soma, age 12, sponsored by the Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund, won the $50,000 prize by correctly spelling the word “abseil.”

Bruhat is a student at Turner/Bartels K-8 in Tampa, Florida.

Location

Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center

at the Maryland Ballroom

Winning Word

abseil(n)

AB-sayl

a descent in mountaineering by means of a rope looped over a projection above.

This word is from German.

OFFICIALS

Directors

Corrie Loeffler

Judges

  • Mary Brooks
  • Dr. Kavya Shivashankar
  • Barrie Trinkle
  • Peter Sokolowski
  • Sameer Mishra
  • Ben Zimmer
  • Kristin Hawkins
  • George Thampy
  • Frank Cahill

Pronouncers

  • Dr. Jacques Bailly
  • Dr. Brian Sietsema
  • Dr. Kevin Moch
  • Christian Axelgard

SPELLER ROSTER

  • Giovanni Adjei
  • Rayaan Ahmad
  • Aaditya Aiyer
  • Angelo Aldoph
  • Aliyah Alpert
  • Oviya Amalraj
  • Juliette Anderson
  • Cayley Anne Anderson
  • Cate Angle
  • Enzo Astorga
  • Elvis Avetis
  • Matthew Baber
  • Jake Bailey
  • Ankita Balaji
  • Aarav Balani
  • Ope Balogun
  • Sebastian Bejar
  • Mariam Belkouchi
  • Carina Beltran
  • Isaac Boyce
  • Brheanna  Boyles
  • Oliviah Braun
  • Isaac Brogan
  • Joshua Bullen
  • Phaneendra Bulusu
  • Chase Camuti
  • Emily Castilla
  • Ribhu Chaher
  • Amaani Charan
  • Yupeng Chen
  • Mina Chen
  • Amara Chepuri
  • Carey Chesire
  • Divya Choudhary
  • Annette Chu
  • Aidan Cobos
  • Evan Cochrane
  • Mariah Coffey
  • Joey Constantine
  • Logan Cox
  • Nathan Crabbendam
  • Ryan Creary
  • N’Adom Darko-Asare
  • Nicasio David
  • Nayara de Silva-Ahmed
  • Sarv Dharavane
  • Joshua Diocares
  • Ethan Dunlap
  • Meredith Dunlap
  • Navya Dwivedi
  • Cooper Edwards
  • Logan Edwards
  • Chioma Egbuonu
  • Antony  Elgohary
  • Elijah Elledge
  • Paranika Ethakota
  • Achyut Ethiraj
  • Ben Evans
  • Ryan Fan
  • Hendrix  Feld
  • Eckward Ferguson
  • Ryan Ferguson
  • Sarah Fernandes
  • Drake Finnicum
  • Ryan Frazee
  • Garrett Fry
  • Reed Fuchs
  • Leo Furlong
  • Isabelle Garcia
  • Charan Garimella
  • Nyarah Garver
  • Luna Gasevic
  • Marissa Gatewood
  • Josephine Gautier
  • Leul Geremew
  • Sean Gibbons
  • Ian Gibson
  • Adyson Gifford
  • Caleb Giuoco
  • Jaden Go
  • Sriya Gomatam
  • Duncan Grant
  • Joseph Greaux
  • Azariah  Green
  • Mallory Greene
  • Anna Greenwell
  • Benjamin Grice
  • Oliver Halkett
  • Cadi Heaton
  • David Heyman
  • Su Hlaing
  • Hayden Hughes
  • Tanoshi Inomata
  • Leyla  Jacobson
  • Vihaan Jagadeesh
  • Adi Jagan Mohan
  • Kavya Jakasania
  • Harini Jayakumar
  • Eli Jernigan
  • Jayden Jiang
  • Emory Jobe
  • Shynelle Joe
  • Ananya Joshi
  • Sarvadnya Kadam
  • Tanya Kadaru
  • Aishwarya Kallakuri
  • Siyona Kandala
  • Noah Kaplan
  • Sharanya Kar
  • Quint Karlsson
  • Dev Katira
  • Partha Katreddy
  • June Keatley
  • Conor Keightley-Reinhardt
  • Sasha Kenlon
  • Aryan Khedkar
  • Daniel Kim
  • Rohith Konduri
  • Anna Korneeva
  • Nidhi Kulkarni
  • Sonia Kulkarni
  • Abena Kwaffo
  • Vir Lagad
  • Orrin Lam
  • Andy Lau
  • Aren Lee
  • Lucas Lee
  • Audrey Lee
  • Ian Leong
  • YY Liang
  • Olivia Lipiec
  • Hi-Tai Lu
  • Declan Mallady
  • Readell Mamea
  • Aarav Mann
  • Alejandro Martinez
  • Victoria McFetridge
  • Leila McLaurin
  • Eli McNair
  • Karissa Measel
  • Aarya Mehendale
  • Kendall Mehl
  • Arabella Mendoza
  • Claire Meng
  • Kooper Mikeska
  • Sebastian  Millan
  • Miah Miller
  • Rhys Miller
  • Yahya Mohammed
  • Sophia Montana
  • Harini Murali
  • Aditi Muthukumar
  • Nethraa Muthupandiyaraja
  • Nargiza Muzhapaer
  • Tarini Nandakumar
  • Jay Nayak
  • Phoenix Newell
  • Ayden Nguyen
  • Katelyn Nguyen
  • Bella Nguyen
  • Advait Nishit
  • Connor Norton
  • Jordin Oremosu
  • Elliana Pagliarini
  • Adhrit Pal
  • Raana Parchuri
  • Shrey Parikh
  • Kunal Patel
  • Dante Pauley
  • Jasmine Perez
  • Mariana Pérez González
  • Aiden Pham
  • Brooke Powell
  • Amritanshu Pradhan
  • Ananya Prassanna
  • Calvin Pratt
  • Avinav Prem Anand
  • Darren Prince-Wright
  • Jaynard Quiray
  • Shradha Rachamreddy
  • Avi Randhawa
  • Nithika  Rangan
  • Zachary Rara
  • William Rausch
  • Nico Reens
  • Daphne Reno
  • Anthony Reyes
  • Olivia Rhee
  • Kai Riedner
  • Leah Rini
  • Andres Robles
  • Nolan Roule
  • Noah Rowe
  • Johannes Roxburgh
  • Dean Ryan
  • Rishabh Saha
  • Siya Sampath
  • Camila Sanchez Izquierdo
  • Simran Sanders
  • Kirsten Santos
  • Aarav Sargurunathan
  • Srikanth Satheesh Kumar
  • Indigo Satko
  • Vel Sethirayar
  • Arshan Shahriar
  • Reid Shaw
  • Aanya Shetty
  • Sree Vidya Siliveri
  • Navtaj Singh
  • Shreeya Sivakumar
  • Claire Smith
  • Bruhat Soma
  • Akshaj Somisetty
  • Aurora Spisak
  • Micah Sterling
  • Ara Swiatlowski
  • Michael Tesfaye
  • Sanil Thorat
  • Scott Tingle
  • Sariah Titus
  • Evan Trieu
  • Carter Tuthill
  • Amiah Van Hill
  • Ishika Varipilli
  • Adarsh Venkannagari
  • Josh Verma
  • Alleena Villaluz
  • Roberto Villasboas
  • Holland Vogel
  • Cheyenne Wang
  • Jacob Warner
  • Ellie Wattenbarger
  • Rubina Wiedemer
  • Elden Wier
  • Aiden Wijeyakulasuriya
  • Walker Wilson
  • Allie Winsor
  • Rylan Wise Wise
  • Victor Yang
  • Zach Yeager
  • Ibrahim Zaki
  • Faizan Zaki
  • Adora Zhang
  • Jayden Zheng
  • Hillel Ziskind

* Winner
** Runner-Up