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10 Easiest Spelling Bee Words, Sept. 2-8. Share of players finding each word. As of 1 p.m. Eastern on Friday, Sept. 8, based on players who use Spelling Bee Buddy. By The New York Times.
10 Hardest Spelling Bee Words, Oct. 14-20. Share of players finding each word. As of 1 p.m. Eastern on Friday, Oct. 20, based on players who use Spelling Bee Buddy. By The New York Times.
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.
The 2024 Spelling Bee was high drama, coming down to a spell-off for the second time ever. Bruhat Soma walked away as the champion after spelling 29 words correctly in 90 seconds, defeating fellow ...
Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. But as the Scripps National Spelling Bee gets underway, a study ...
In honour of the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee, here’s a list of the 10 most difficult winning words since 1925. Read the list below to see if you understand their definitions and etymology.
The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee will be held May 27-29 and broadcast on ION. Winning words from the past decade include "scherenschnitte," "Feldenkrais," "gesellschaft," and "marocain." ...
For the first time in 52 years, the Scripps National Spelling Bee crowns two winners, after the final two competitors exhausted the word list. Another speller won fans with his high energy.
Riley Beckett, a third grader at Stanwood Elementary School, has been relentlessly practicing her older brother Luke’s spelling list since she was in first grade. “She could spell any word ...
A young girl from Torbay weathered a storm of words this week to emerge triumphant in a spelling competition that gradually eliminated several dozen other children. Emily Hynes, 10, came out on ...