OXON HILL, Md. — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee's word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee introduces the U.S. to a host of weird and wonderful words. Here are some of our favorites to slip into your next conversation.

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.

But what’s important about this particular word is not its meaning but rather the fact that 14-year-old Dev Shah of Largo, Florida, managed to spell it correctly to win the 2023 Scripps National ...

The word she missed, tekke, meaning a dervish monastery, is “a very uncommon” spelling for a word of Turkish origin, he said. ... “That she did amazing.” By: Marissa J. Lang.

The Spelling Bee offers the "Word of Champions," which the competition describes as "the key study resource for students participating in the Scripps National Spelling Bee program." It has 4,000 ...

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 ...

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

The movement for the reform of how we spell the words of our wonderful language – even if it’s not very well known – has been going on in our great nation since about the time of its founding.

Other words that Americans seem to struggle with are “millennium” (misspelled at a rate of 12. 7 percent), supersede (21.1 percent) and minuscule (32.5 percent).