In a world dominated by autocorrect and communication by emoji, a sacred annual gathering of linguistic student phenoms persists. These word whizzes have advanced from regional competitions to ...

And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. If you weren't playing along at home, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real ...

Fans of the NYT Spelling Bee puzzle, has it ever occurred to you that it would be a lot easier to assemble words if one of the letters was an S? Well, the NYT Spelling Bee puzzle for March 12 obliged, ...

As if spelling words like gyrocotylid and pohutukawa wasn't impossible enough, the Scripps National Spelling Bee added definitions to this year's contest, making you feel even more foolish than usual.

WASHINGTON, DC — The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee begins May 27. And, the organization has said it is dialing back its reliance on the high-pressure tiebreaker round known as the “spell-off,” ...

Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help. By New York Times Games Hi, busy bees! Welcome to today’s Spelling Bee forum. Enter the comments section to see hints, conversation, helpful tips and ...

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos welcomed the Scripps National Spelling Bee winner to Live. The couple misspelled words a few times during their mock challenge against him. Ripa slammed her notecard to ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) – Hello. I’m Speller No. 282. And I’m not going to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But thanks to the new vocabulary test, I might have been a contender. This being my eighth ...

If you weren't playing along at home during Thursday night's final, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real thing. "Éclaircissement." And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the ...