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Faizan Zaki, age 13, spelled the word “eclaircissement” and collapsed on the floor in victory as confetti showered him at the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee last week. The annual ...

“I went in thinking I was a smart kid who had won a National Spelling Bee, and I must be able to compete with the highest-level academic kids. I signed up for a bunch of advanced classes I ...

The first National Spelling Bee was held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1925 and was won by Frank Neuhauser, who correctly spelled "gladiolus." The Scripps National Spelling Bee has grown ...

An orthographic, prepubescent champion will be crowned Thursday when the 2025 Scripps Spelling Bee wraps up with its final round outside of Washington D.C. Nine spellers, ages 11-14, advanced to ...

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The Daily Star Regional Spelling Bee winner Margot Fieni ended her run at the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee Competition on Wednesday, May 28, after being eliminated for missing the word ...

The annual competition where students put their spelling skills to the test began in 1925 when nine newspapers hosted a spelling bee. Only nine spellers participated in that first competition.

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2025, and while the bragging rights for winning the tournament are second to none, the prize money is pretty good, too.

The centennial spelling bee began Tuesday morning with preliminaries, in which participants have to pass two rounds — a traditional spelling round and a multiple-choice definition round ...