Beatriz Lucille Whitford-Rodriguez, 14, of Chicago, spells her word in the semifinals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in National Harbor, Md. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will kick off on May 28 as 245 spellers descend on National Harbor, Maryland, for four days of competition. Ahead of the event, a word selection panel gathers to ...

Twenty-three Stonington Middle School students lined the bleachers in the gymnasium on Wednesday morning and took to the ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is taking place this week, celebrating its 100th anniversary. In honor of the competition, we've decided to test our readers' spelling skills with a quiz on the ...

Before he was asked to spell “elucubrate,” Jacques Bailly had never heard the word. The then-14-year-old had survived round after round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee when the pronouncer read ...

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This is where the spelling of the winning word in last year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee gets tricky. And oh, by the way, it’s already incorrect. Below is your chance to spell it correctly, along ...

The nation’s best young spellers gathered in Maryland this week for the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A total of 243 children between the ages of 8 and 14 competed to be the ...