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Top Finishers
- T-1st – Gokul Venkatachalam, Vanya Shivashankar
- 3rd – Cole Shafer-Ray (the only speller in the competition who didn’t tie for a place!)
- T-4th – Snehaa Ganesh Kumar, Dev Jaiswal, Siddharth Krishnakumar
- T-7th – Paul Keaton, Tejas Muthusamy
- T-9th – Siyona Mishra, Sylvie Lamontagne
Round Results
Preliminaries | Semifinals | Championship Finals |
Preliminaries Test | Semifinals Test | Round 7 |
Round 2 Vocabulary | Round 5 Vocabulary | Round 8 |
Round 2 | Round 5 | Round 9 |
Round 3 Vocabulary | Round 6 Vocabulary | Round 10 |
Round 3 | Round 6 | Round 11 |
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Round 13 | ||
Round 14 | ||
Round 15 | ||
Round 16 | ||
Round 17 | ||
Round 18 | ||
Round 19 | ||
Round 20 |
Official PDFs & More
General Info | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Championship Finals |
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2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee (88th) Wikipedia | Preliminaries Test Seating Chart | Semifinals Test | Round 7 |
Participants: 283 (originally 285 but 2 didn't show up) | Preliminaries Test | Semifinals Test Form | Round 8 |
Bee Week Guide | Preliminaries Test Form | Round 5 Vocabulary | Round 9 |
Semifinalist Cutoff Score: 29/36 | Preliminaries Test Sample Answer Sheet | Round 5 | Round 10 |
Semifinalists | Preliminaries Test Sample Score Results | Round 6 Vocabulary | Round 11 |
Championship Finalist Cutoff Score: 61/72 | Round Two Study Guide | Round 6 | Round 12 |
Championship Finalists | Round Two Study Words | Summary Results for the Semifinals | Round 13 |
Total Words: 750 (722 excluding vocabulary) | Round 2 Vocabulary | Round 14 | |
Winning Words: scherenschnitte, nunatak | Round 2 | Round 15 | |
Round Three Study Guide | Round 16 | ||
Round Three Study Words | Round 17 | ||
Round 3 Vocabulary | Round 18 | ||
Round 3 | Round 19 | ||
Summary Results for the Preliminaries | Round 20 |

Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas (left) and Gokul Venkatachalam of Chesterfield, Missouri (right) become the fifth pair of co-champions in history and the second pair in two years. (Mark Bowen/Scripps National Spelling Bee)
Past Scripps National Spelling Bees
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