Ripon students excel in spelling bee, advancing to regionals with challenging words like apocalypse and concierge. Discover ...

In 1928, Betty Robinson was the first Hoosier to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It was a long wait until 2004 that another Indiana speller took the top prize. That was David Tidmarsh. More ...

OK, all you spelling champs: Do you recognize the word that’s spelled t-a-o-i-s-e-a-c-h? And do you recall hearing, spelling and defining it? Reid Shaw, an incoming seventh grader at Tri-North Middle ...

Zachary Yeager's run in the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended Wednesday morning when he misspelled his word in Round 4. Yeager, a seventh grader at Chippewa Jr./Sr. High School in Doylestown who won ...

First- and second-place winners will advance to the state competition which will take place in Manteca next spring.

To win a spelling bee competition, you need to be able to spell a wide range of words, including both common and uncommon words. You also need to be able to stay calm and focused under pressure. The ...

Before he was asked to spell “elucubrate,” Jacques Bailly had never heard the word. The then-14-year-old had survived round after round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee when the pronouncer read ...

Elementary school division winners are Kelly Chen, left, Emiliano Jimenez, and Jacob Mintz. Four local students have earned their spot at the California State Spelling Bee after coming in first or ...

Former spelling bee participants who felt the sting of being ousted from the competition — perhaps for forgetting the age-old "I before E, except after C" rule — have the chance to redeem themselves ...

In what was an ultimate test of linguistic abilities and sign language understanding, the 2025 National Spelling Bee finals ...