[5][6] There were 234 contestants in the field for the 2022 edition of the spelling bee, which was a modest increase over 209 spellers that competed in the year before.

[9] Actor LeVar Burton hosted the spelling bee on Scripps-owned Ion Television and Bounce TV, which broadcast every day of the event.

[10] The spelling bee was broken up into four segments this year: preliminaries, quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals.

[6] The newly introduced word meaning competition returned for the second time.

[17] The third–to–last speller was eliminated in Round 11, leaving 12–year old Vikram Raju and 14–year old Harini Logan to compete for the title.