Her word: cymotrichous, meaning having the hair wavy.
"It's just amazing. It's hard to fine the words," said Sukanya, who has spent the last three days working her way through an impressively complicated set of words with origins from around the globe.
One by one, other Bee hopefuls were ultimately defeated by such polysyllabic tongue-twisters as sciamachy, a word that means fighting with a shadow or imaginary enemy. The Scripps National Spelling Bee hosted 275 spellers this year from across the country and the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea. Thirteen spellers competed in the finals round Thursday night, live on ESPN, in hopes of winning $30,000 among other prizes.
It was a tough road to the finals.
In the semifinals round, Plano, Texas, native Narahari Bharadwaj was felled by the word ceratorhine, any of a group of two-horned rhinoceroses having well-developed lower canine teeth.
He added an extra "r."
For Narahari, it was a disappointing end to his quest to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. He made it within striking distance of landing in the finals.
Alas, it was not to be. After misspelling the word he hung his head and walked to the side of the stage to wait on his parents.
"I was thinking whether I should double the 'r' or not," the 13-year-old said afterward.
Prakash Mishra stepped up his training after his run in last year's National Spelling Bee ended in the third round. And for a while it looked as if his hour-a-day regimen would amount to a big pay off.
The 13-year-old Union County, N.C., eighth-grader correctly spelled "phreatophyte" in round seven of the semifinals to advance to Thursday night's championship round. He was his state's only representative in the National Spelling Bee.
Wearing a shirt emblazoned with a splash of yellow - his lucky color - Prakash looked poised as he rattled off one correct spelling after another onstage at the annual Washington, D.C., competition. At times, he even looked relaxed, in contrast to some contestants whose nerves got the best of them.
He rarely hesitated as he breezed through turophile, baize, empressement and finally phreatophyte - a deep-rooted plant that gets water from the water table or soil above it.
Prakash was felled by the word susurrus, which is a soft, whispering or rustling sound.
Director of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and 1981 bee champ, Paige Pipkin Kimble, said the competition gives academically precocious children a chance to shine.
"They want to be stars and this program provides a fabulous opportunity not only for children to learn and excel," Kimble said. "But be recognized for their talents."
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