2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee (92nd) Wikipedia
Participants: 562 (originally 565 but 3 didn’t show up)
Championship Finalists: Aisha Randhawa (T-15th), Hephzibah Sujoe (T-15th), Yolanda Ni (14th), Nicholas D’Sa (T-12th), Colette Giezentanner (T-12th), Navneeth Murali (11th), Alice Liu (10th), Simone Kaplan (9th), Rishik Gandhasri (T-1st), Erin Howard (T-1st), Saketh Sundar (T-1st), Shruthika Padhy (T-1st), Sohum Sukhatankar (T-1st), Abhijay Kodali (T-1st), Christopher Serrao (T-1st), Rohan Raja (T-1st)
Total Words: 1,416 (1,402 excluding vocabulary)
Winning Words: auslaut, erysipelas, bougainvillea/bougainvillaea/bougainvillia, aiguillette, pendeloque, palama, cernuous, odylic
Finalist Cutoff Score: 30/36
Summary Results for the Preliminaries
2019 wasn’t just an unprecedented year for its eight “octo-champs”—it also introduced a new-look championship trophy.
Erik S. Lesser/EPA-EFA/Rex/Shutterstock (top)
Pete Marovich/UPI (bottom)