[1][2] Ananya Vinay, 12, won the competition by successfully spelling "marocain" in the final round.

They came from all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as Department of Defense schools in Europe.

Six other countries also have entrants: the Bahamas, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, and South Korea.

A link to the results may be found at https://secure.spellingbee.com/public/results/2017/round_results [4] The spellers ranged from age 6 to 15, made up of 138 girls and 153 boys.

The Bee began on the morning of Tuesday, May 30, 2017, when the contestants took their opening written test (the "first round").

[11] The results from the oral spelling rounds were then combined with the written test scores to determine the group of finalists to compete on Thursday, which could not exceed 50 spellers.

[14] The final two spellers were Ananya Vinay, 12, of Fresno, California, and Rohan Rajeev, who continued to spell their words correctly for some time.