Dev Shah defeats Charlotte Walsh after she fails to correctly spell 'daviely' in an earlier round.
Dev Shah, 14, receives the trophy after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee competitionDev Shah, a 14-year-old student from Largo, spelled "psammophile" correctly to win the 95th national bee and the $50,000 prize.
Charlotte Walsh, also 14, from Arlington, Virginia, was the runner-up, having failed to correctly spell "daviely" in an earlier round.
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