Paul Loeffler, the television host for the bee, joked that Yeager has ... That correct spelling immediately moved him onto Round 2, which was a vocabulary word. Yeager correctly defined “mollify ...

Bruhat Soma made spelling look easy at the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Not a single word slipped ... in the competition. The playoff round was added to the competition in 2021 and has ...