George Bernard Shaw, a member of the Simplified Spelling Soesiety. The English language is notorious for complex spelling ...

"I started in my first grade, where I did my school spelling bee, and luckily, I won. So I decided that spelling bees are a great thing, and I wanted to do it, so I kept working harder and harder.

May 29 (UPI) -- Faizan Zaki, a seventh-grade student from Dallas was crowned the champion of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, after finishing second last year.

This year's national spelling bee champion will be the 110th, because the bee ended in a two-way tie several times and an eight-way tie in 2019.

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held ...

This is the 100th anniversary of the first national spelling bee, which was on June 17, 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers around the country to hold spelling bees ...

Sixty spellers were eliminated in Tuesday’s preliminary spelling and vocabulary rounds, leaving 183 to take a written spelling and vocabulary test ahead of Wednesday’s quarterfinals.

Speller Sydney Tran, of Irvine, CA, representing The Orange County Register/O.C. Department of Education, competes in a preliminary round for the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 27, 2025 ...