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WHYY is proud to present the 2025 regional winners who will participate in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. Students from South Jersey and Philadelphia will compete in two spelling bees ...
Comparative literature student Frank Cahill competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee as an eighth grader. This year, on ...
you’re given a list of letters and need to make words to score points from them. The New York Times (NYT) Spelling Bee is based on a similar format as you get a set of letters from which you ...
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Riley Beckett, a third grader at Stanwood Elementary School, has been relentlessly practicing her older brother Luke’s ...
As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection ... two days before the bee, the word list is all but complete. Each word has been vetted by the ...
George Weghorst, a regional spelling bee champion from Fort Thomas, Kentucky, has been studying thousands of words in preparation for the national competition in Washington, D.C.
The winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, ...
Please read and understand these rules prior to the day of the Bee, and ask the local official any questions you might have prior to the Bee. The Scripps National Spelling Bee has no authority ...
Some parents give up helping their children with spelling long before they get to spelling bee words like ... spelling lists. But Moats says there are ways to decode words that will allow students ...
"Percipient" and "enteric" were the winning words in this year's Arizona Spelling ... core list of 4,000 words, with 800 new ones added annually as older words are retired. However, if a bee ...
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