Thirteen-year-old Faizan Zaki took home the championship title by spelling the word "éclaircissement" during the 100th ...

After finishing second in last year's competition, Faizan Zaki of Allen won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. See which word he won with.

Faizan Zaki, a seventh-grader from Allen, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He shared that he visualizes typing words on a keyboard to help him spell them. Zaki said his dream of ...

Faizan Zaki won the title of best speller at the Scripps National Spelling Bee after finishing up as the runner-up last year.

There's more to it than simply spelling words correctly, as contestants traverse several rounds of competition en route to the finale. The rules certainly make for an exciting competition ...

According to Britannica Education, that dictionary contains more than 500,000 words and 700,000 definitions. As it does every year, the start of the spelling bee represents a mammoth achievement ...