The kids were just too good. The finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee turned into a slog on Thursday, with bee organizers unable to scour Webster's Unabridged dictionary for words challenging ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WCMH) — The 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee is underway from our nation’s capital and two central Ohioans are competing against over 200 others from across the country. Fifteen ...

In 2024, 12-year-old Bruhat Soma of St. Petersburg won the 96th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in a record-breaking 29-word spell-off. The year before, eighth-grader Dev Shah of Largo took the ...

OXON HILL, Md. — Rudveep Randhawa’s three kids competed in eight consecutive Scripps National Spelling Bees from 2016 to 2024, with four appearances by daughter Aisha and two each by daughter Lara and ...

Last night, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki of Plano, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Including Faizan, whose parents emigrated from India, 30 of the past 36 champions have been Indian ...

The annual competition where students put their spelling skills to the test began in 1925 when nine newspapers hosted a spelling bee. Only nine spellers participated in that first competition.

OXON HILL, Md. - The all stars you've been seeing on ESPN this week aren't your typical heroes: They're between the ages of 6 and 15, wear braces and can spell words such as hobbledehoy and ...

Next month at the National Spelling Bee near Washington, D.C., competitors will have to take a multiple choice vocabulary test, in addition to a written exam, to qualify for the final oral round.