Honored to be here

Simone Kaplan, Speller 60 and a Florida sixth grader, spelled "bathysmal" correctly. It means of or relating to the bottom of the deeper parts of the sea, especially those parts between 100 and 1000 fathoms deep.

Simone said she was surprised to make it to the finals because she was nervous.

“There's so much fierce competition,” she said. “I'm just honored to be there.”

Simone's goal, she said, was to get to the stage on Thursday.

“Now, I don't even know if I'm going to make a new goal,” she said.

Simone previously competed in 2017 when she tied for 189th place.

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Harini Logan is the winner of the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee

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2022 Finalist - Speller 223 Surya Kapu

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2022 Finalist - Speller 104 Abhilash Patel

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2022 Finalist - Speller 205 Vihaan Sibal

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2022 Finalist - Speller 189 Kirsten Santos

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2022 Finalist - Speller 1 Sahasrad Sathish

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2022 Finalist - Speller 197 Nitya Kathiravan

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2022 Finalist - Speller 76 Vikram Raju

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2022 Finalist - Speller 87 Aliyah Alpert

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2022 Finalist - Speller 65 Ekansh Rastogi

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