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’s enthusiasm for spelling nearly got the better of him. Ultimately, his joyful approach made him the Scripps ...

Three Tri-Valley students were in Washington DC this week to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, marking the first ...

"One thing is just that English in particular is very tricky. It has what people call an opaque orthography," said Ariel ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — With the benefit of hindsight, Vikram Raju knows there was almost no chance he would win after being a ...

The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send ...

Previous winners say the spelling bee has become much more competitive and credit television with making it a cultural ...

Previous winners say the spelling bee has become much more competitive and credit television with making it a cultural ...

DULUTH — An Ordean East Middle School student placed in the top 60 contestants at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Eighth-grader Gemma Kim, 14, was one of nine ...

From the first winning word (gladiolus) to the use of fast-paced spell-offs, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has endured for 100 years.