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Colorado's 13-year-old spelling champion Aditi Muthukumar earned a spot in Thursday's Scripps National Spelling Bee finals by correctly spelling words this reporter had never heard of.

Aditi Muthukumar, 13, of Westminster, and Cooper Edwards, 11, of Boulder County, represented Colorado in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Aditi Muthukumar, 13, of Westminster, and Cooper Edwards, 11, of Boulder County, represented Colorado in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Aditi Muthukumar, the Westminster 12-year-old who won the Denver Post-sponsored state spelling bee this year, made it to the quarterfinal round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland, before meeting her match with the word "surette," a tropical American tree with dark wood and yellow berries.

Aditi Muthukumar, the Westminster 12-year-old who won the Denver Post-sponsored state spelling bee this year, made it to the quarterfinal round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland, before meeting her match with the word "surette," a tropical American tree with dark wood and yellow berries.

Aditi Muthukumar, who attends Hulstrom Options K-8 School in Northglenn, and Sofia Tommey Wu, who attends Boulder's Douglass Elementary School, as the two students representing Colorado in the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee.