WASHINGTON — Iolan Clara Wicoff, 14, ended her final bid at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday afternoon.
Wicoff missed qualifying for the semi-final round by one point. She scored 22 points of the 23 necessary to become a semifinalist. Fifty of the 278 spellers qualified for this morning’s competition.
When on stage, Wicoff correctly spelled “shuddering” and “fraise,” a decorative ruff worn around a woman’s neck in Elizabethan times.