Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 14-year-old from San Antonio spelled 21 words correctly during the bee’s first-ever lightning-round tiebreaker

An onstage vocabulary round introduced a new element of randomness into the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The multiple-choice vocabulary questions forced spellers to demonstrate a different skill set and knocked out some of the bee’s most accomplished spellers during Wednesday’s semifinals. Among those who were eliminated without spelling a word incorrectly were Roy Seligman and Vivinsha Veduru, who tied for...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee’s preliminary rounds are much tougher and packed with drama this year. The bee is back in person for the first time since 2019, but without the written test that was used for years to determine the best 50 or so spellers. Instead, spellers are asked to spell a word, define a word and spell another...

Get out your dictionary — it’s time for the 94th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee and two Bay Area students will be competing.

Get out your dictionary — it’s time for the national Spelling Bee and two Bay Area students will be competing.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee kicks off this week as 234 spellers descend on National Harbor, Maryland, for the first fully in-person Bee since 2019.

Schools and sponsors have dropped out of the bee pipeline, regions have been consolidated and the bee has fewer than half the spellers it had three years ago.

LeVar Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The Louisiana teen twirled and leaped with excitement after spelling the winning word “murraya,” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees.

Finalists in the Scripps National Spelling Bee will get a visit from one of the nation’s most prominent educators: first lady Jill Biden

One eighth-grader competing in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling bee has earned more recognition for her athletic prowess than for her mastery of the dictionary

Competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee got lessons in patience and perseverance after last year’s bee was canceled because of the pandemic.