The 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee began on Tuesday as more than 200 spellers looked to advance past the preliminary round. In the preliminaries, spellers competed in a traditional spelling round ...

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, I thought interviewing Gemini Quintos who plays “Marcy Park” in the production. Om system Marcy ...

Faizan Zaki is the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The 13-year-old spelled the word "éclaircissement" correctly on Thursday night to win in the 100th anniversary of the competition. Zaki ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., is celebrating its 100th anniversary this week, and Miles Little, a McCracken Middle School student, represented Spartanburg at the competition.

In plotting out his award-winning documentary, "Spellbound," director Jeff Blitz had to gamble on finding promising spellers who seemed like the best bets to win their regional competitions and ...

Zaila Avant-garde, the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, is now attending the University of Maryland on a full scholarship.

“Stygian” means having the characteristics of death, but the word kept a lawmaker alive in a spelling competition Wednesday night. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr., D-Va., got it correct to move on to the ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- A Kalamazoo fifth grader is headed home after competing with the nation’s best spellers at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Josiah Loehrke, a fifth grader at El Sol Elementary, made ...