2026年5月28日 / 美国东部时间晚上11:59 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
什雷·帕里克于周四在第98届年度斯克里普斯全国拼字大赛中夺冠。这位来自加利福尼亚州兰乔库卡蒙加的14岁八年级学生，击败了晋级决赛的8名竞争对手。
什雷与来自新泽西州泽西城的12岁选手伊沙恩·古普塔是最后两位留在赛场的参赛者，两人进入加时赛以决出冠军。在加时赛中，每位选手有90秒时间拼写出尽可能多的单词。
什雷正确拼写出32个单词，而伊沙恩拼对了25个。
加时赛节奏极快，几乎无法分辨是哪个单词锁定了冠军头衔。但斯克里普斯赛后宣布，最终获胜单词是“bromocriptine”（溴隐亭），这是一种模拟多巴胺活性的多肽生物碱。
2026年5月28日，在华盛顿特区宪法大厅，14岁的选手什雷·帕里克在赢得2026年斯克里普斯全国拼字大赛后，手持奖杯与家人庆祝。希瑟·迪尔 / 盖蒂图片社
什雷将获得52500美元现金奖金，外加大英百科全书和韦氏词典的参考丛书、定制奖杯和纪念奖章，以及达美航空提供的1000美元飞行积分。
尽管这是第98届大赛，但什雷是第111位冠军，因为大赛曾多次出现两人并列冠军的情况，2019年更是出现了八人并列冠军。
什雷在2024年大赛中获得第三名，去年因发烧输掉了学校的拼字比赛。此后他在拼字赛事中占据统治地位，赢得了多场线上比赛，对手正是本周在华盛顿特区他击败的许多选手。
“现在我可能是有史以来最开心的时刻。我既开心又如释重负，情绪如潮水般涌来，”什雷说道，“去年学校的拼字比赛时，我非常沮丧，整个人都垮了。直到第二天我才反应过来发生了什么，那段时间真的很艰难，但我很高兴自己能够重新振作起来。”
选手们通过全国各地赞助商举办的区域赛晋级周四的决赛。参赛选手必须未超过八年级，且年龄不超过15岁。
参赛者需要通过两轮预赛，预赛中他们需要根据提前提供的单词列表进行拼写测试，包括一轮拼写轮次和一轮多项选择词汇轮次。
通过预赛的选手需要参加书面拼写和词汇测试，排名前约100名的选手晋级四分之一决赛。测试以及后续所有轮次的单词均出自《韦氏 unabridged》（韦氏 unabridged词典，即韦氏无删节版词典）。
在四分之一决赛和半决赛阶段，选手通过麦克风进行口头拼写或词汇答题，遭到淘汰。
今年的大赛共有247名选手参赛，代表全美50个州、哥伦比亚特区、3个美国海外领地以及巴哈马、加拿大、加纳、尼日利亚和阿联酋5个其他国家。预赛结束后仍有167名选手晋级，经过书面拼写和词汇测试后，参赛人数缩减至95名四分之一决赛选手。
首届大赛于1925年举办，当时《路易斯维尔信使日报》邀请其他报社举办地方拼字赛，并选派冠军前往华盛顿参赛。大赛曾在马里兰州郊区的一个会议中心举办多年，今年重回首都华盛顿，落户距离白宫几个街区的宪法大厅。
大赛曾因第二次世界大战在1943年至1945年停办，2020年又因新冠疫情停办。
Shrey Parikh wins 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee in spell-off
May 28, 2026 / 11:59 PM EDT / CBS/AP
Shrey Parikh emerged victorious Thursday in the 98th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 14-year-old eighth-grader from Rancho Cucamonga, California, bested a field of eight contenders who had advanced to the finals.
Shrey and 12-year-old Ishaan Gupta of Jersey City, New Jersey, were the last two spellers standing. The two went to a spell-off to determine the winner. In the spell-off, each had 90 seconds to spell as many words as possible.
Shrey spelled 32 words correctly, while Ishaan spelled 25.
The spell-off moves so fast that it’s impossible to tell which word secures the title. But Scripps later announced that the winner was “bromocriptine,” a polypeptide alkaloid that mimics the activity of dopamine.
Speller Shrey Parikh, 14, holds a trophy and celebrates with family after winning the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee at Constitution Hall on May 28, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Heather Diehl / Getty Images
Shrey will take home a cash prize of $52,500, along with the reference works from Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster, a custom trophy and commemorative medal, and $1,000 in flight credits from Delta Air Lines.
Although this was the 98th bee, Shrey is the 111th champion because the bee ended in a two-way tie several times, and an eight-way tie in 2019.
Shrey finished third in 2024 but lost his school bee last year when he was battling a fever. He has dominated the bee circuit since, winning several online competitions against many of the same kids he outlasted this week in the nation’s capital.
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“Right now I’m probably the happiest I’ve ever been. I’m just so happy and relieved, and just such a flood of emotions,” Shrey said. “At my school bee last year, I was really dejected and just very upset. It didn’t even sink in until the next day. I had a really tough time, but I’m glad I was able to bounce back.”
Spellers qualified for Thursday’s finals by advancing through regional bees hosted by sponsors around the country. In order to compete, spellers must not have advanced beyond the eighth grade or be older than 15.
Competitors must get through two preliminary rounds, where they are quizzed on words from a list provided in advance. There is one spelling round and one multiple-choice vocabulary round.
Those who make it through the preliminaries sit for a written spelling and vocabulary test, with the top 100 or so finishers advancing to the quarterfinals. The words for the test, and for all subsequent rounds, are taken from the Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary.
Throughout the quarterfinals and semifinals, spellers are eliminated at the microphone through oral spelling or vocabulary questions.
This year’s bee had 247 spellers representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, three U.S. territories and five other countries: the Bahamas, Canada, Ghana, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates. After the preliminary rounds, 167 were left, and that field was cut to 95 quarterfinalists after the written spelling and vocabulary test.
The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send their champions to Washington. After a long run at a convention center in suburban Maryland, the bee returned to the nation’s capital this year at Constitution Hall, a few blocks from the White House.
The bee was canceled from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II and again in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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