14-year-old wins Scripps National Spelling Bee in record-setting tie-breaker 15.7%
One America News Network - By Lillian Mann - 5/29/2026, 5:58 PM
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A 14-year-old from California has won the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling 32 words out of 35 in 90 seconds during an intense, lightning-fast tiebreaker round in Washington, D.C. Shrey Parikh, an eighth-grader from Rancho Cucamonga, outlasted the competition through 18 grueling regular rounds at DAR... more