OXON HILL, Md. — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee's word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before ...

Remember each daily Spelling Bee word list is curated by an editor and doesn’t include every possible solution. If you run ...

The annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is more mysterious than you might think. While the event has grown in renown and fandom over its 90-year history, there's still little known about how National ...

In the years since 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser correctly spelled gladiolus (a type of flower) during the first National Spelling Bee on June 17, 1925, the tournament has blossomed into a much-watched ...

There’s a word UC Berkeley comparative literature Ph.D. student Frank Cahill will never forget. He misspelled it as an eighth grader in the second round of the live televised Scripps National Spelling ...

A Florida teacher is under fire for sending home a spelling list to their first grade students with the n-word on it. Apparently, the word should have been “bigger,” but parents don’t care. They are ...

Just in time for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Google has released its list of America’s most misspelled words by state — and Wisconsinites have some explaining to do. Google Trends tweeted a map ...

Seemingly unfazed by the stage lights and television cameras, one gifted adolescent after the next approached the microphone on Thursday night and without a hint of timidity correctly spelled daunting ...