Live updates from the finals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee including words, definitions and analysis.

Jacques Bailly, a past Scripps National Spelling Bee winner, has served as the head announcer for decades. He picked 10 words ...

If you haven't heard about the Black girl who won the first national spelling bee in the U.S. 115 years ago, you're not alone: even many in her family didn't know about Marie C. Bolden's feat ...