On the eve of the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, its word selection panel has worked long hours to approve all words, including their spellings, pronunciations and languages of origin.

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 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.

Faizan Zaki, 13, of Texas, has been named the champion of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. He was the runner-up in last year’s bee ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

‘This is amazing,’ says 11-year-old from Dunwoody, the youngest speller to make the finals. 1 / 23. Sarv Dharavane, 11, of Tucker, Ga., reacts after spelling his word correctly in the finals ...

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).

Maggie Lorenz, left, and Kevin Moch participate in a meeting of the word panel to finalize the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee words on May 28, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.