Every Spelling Bee puzzle is hand-curated with a wide-ranging audience in mind. Is there a word you want to see included in ...

His victories have earned him multiple gift cards to the annual Jefferson Parish book sale. He also won a set of kitchen pots ...

The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee wrapped up this week with participants navigating words the average person likely never heard of, let alone could spell.

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The Scripps National Spelling Bee introduces the U.S. to a host of weird and wonderful words. Here are some of our favorites to slip into your next conversation.

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 ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee carries on the tradition by using the Merriam-Webster dictionary as its source of words to this day. This year, 234 qualifying spellers under the age of 16 from ...

I'm a former National Spelling Bee contestant and a Food & Wine editor. Here's an exercise in swallowing my pride.

Intensive reading help for middle and high school is far less common than it is for elementary schoolers, despite the toll ...

When you misspell a word, memorize the correct spelling with a vow that you’ll never get that one wrong again. The universe of commonly misspelled words is finite, not vast.

The 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is under way, near Washington, D.C. Linguist Ben Zimmer explains what makes some words difficult to spell — and how the contestants learn to conquer ...