Seventh-grader Dominic Ranz Errazo admitted he was nervous but he managed to spell emetic correctly at the Scripps National Spelling Bee held in Washington, DC, this week.

In the fourth round of the national spelling bee, Dominic Ranz Errazo finally got a word he could relate to: “emetic,” which means inducing one to vomit. “It sounds like the nervousness I ...