Stygian” means having the characteristics of death, but the word kept a lawmaker alive in a spelling competition Wednesday night.

This year, due to the pandemic, the Montana spelling bees (school, county and state) were held virtually on the Scripps Online Testing Platform. Yellowstone County Spelling Bee announces 2021 ...

The skills developed in learning to spell and through participating in spelling bees can build camaraderie between students and teachers, said Montana. Plus, it’s accessible.

Montana, who helped build her schoolwide spelling bee contest over the last 10 years, has noticed that spelling bees have been especially beneficial for English learners in her school, who make up ...

Faizan Zaki won the Scripps National Spelling Bee with "éclaircissement," marking the competition's 100th anniversary and becoming the first runner-up to win in nearly 25 years.

Faizan Zaki, 13, of Texas, has been named the champion of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. He was the runner-up in last year’s bee ...

Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, defeating eight other finalists and earning more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. Faizan, a 13-year-old from Allen, Texas ...

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 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.

With that, the 11-year-old from Louisville, Ky., became the first National Spelling Bee champion. It was June 17, 1925. Tens of millions of grade-school spellers later, ...

Faizan Zaki, the 2024 runner-up, is among the group from which a champion will be named during the Bee's 100th anniversary celebration. Scripps National Spelling Bee finals live stream, TV channel ...

Aishwarya Kallakuri, 14, of Charlotte, N.C., reacts after spelling a word correctly in the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md.