Brittany Kasko is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital.

A new "encrypted spelling test" on Playbuzz is stumping the internet. The quiz replaces letters with numbers and challenges people to choose the correct spelling of words. There are no trick questions ...

The Oxford English Dictionary estimates there are over 170,000 words in the English language, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Only a few other languages reportedly have more words than the ...

Beatriz Lucille Whitford-Rodriguez, 14, of Chicago, spells her word in the semifinals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in National Harbor, Md. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) The ...

This is where the spelling of the winning word in last year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee gets tricky. And oh, by the way, it’s already incorrect. Below is your chance to spell it correctly, along ...

The nation’s best young spellers gathered in Maryland this week for the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A total of 243 children between the ages of 8 and 14 competed to be the ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will kick off on May 28 as 245 spellers descend on National Harbor, Maryland, for four days of competition. Ahead of the event, a word selection panel gathers to ...

Here’s how the test worked: For each of the words, we gave you the definition, the language of origin and an audio recording of the word being pronounced. You could either guess the spelling or give ...

In recent years, an international team of linguists partnered with Merriam-Webster to analyze a decade’s worth of words. According to the linguists, nature and natural science accounted for 38% of ...

Ankita Vadiala of Manassas, Va., reacts after correctly spelling her word during the semifinal round of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland.

We’re going to make it easy for you to ace an eight-question quiz. All you have to do is figure out the definitions. Related Article I didn’t know the words. I didn’t know the definitions. And I ...

Just in time for the 2017 Scripps Spelling Bee this week, we thought it was only fair to give everyone a chance to see how they’d do in the competition. This quiz uses 10 words from previous bees to ...