14-year-old wins Scripps National Spelling Bee in record-setting tie-breaker

OAN Staff Lillian Mann 5:57 PM – Friday, May 29, 2026 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…