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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.

Hi busy bees! Welcome to today’s Spelling Bee forum. There are a number of terms that appear in both this article and other online discussions of the Spelling Bee; a glossary of those terms ...

Unsurprisingly, a competition as renowned as the national spelling bee comes with several rules. There's more to it than simply spelling words correctly, as contestants traverse several rounds of ...

Students compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling words that could make one’s head spin (“weissnichtwo” and “cabotinage,” to name a couple). But it doesn’t take ...

AIs are easily acing the SAT, defeating chess grandmasters and debugging code like it’s nothing. But put an AI up against some middle schoolers at the spelling bee, and it’ll get knocked out ...

13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the Scripps National Spelling Bee with a word many adults would struggle to even pronounce.

If you grew up in the US, you've probably heard of a little thing called the spelling bee. It's a school-wide competition where students anxiously get up on stage, shakily stand in front of a ...

Those were just a few of the words journalists and lawmakers were asked to spell at the annual National Press Club’s “Press Vs. Politicians” spelling bee Wednesday night, a friendly but ...

From "psammophile" to "demarche," here are the words that crowned the most recent champions of the National Spelling Bee.

Texas teen Faizan Zaki spelled his way to victory in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee with a word most adults can't even pronounce. His winning word? Éclaircissement. Here's how the 13-year ...

The Scripps Spelling Bee can be daunting, even beyond the words presented to contestants. Here's everything you need to know about the competition: ...