The Scripps National Spelling Bee will kick off on May 28 as 245 spellers descend on National Harbor, Maryland, for four days of competition. Ahead of the event, a word selection panel gathers to ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Before he was asked to spell “elucubrate,” Jacques Bailly had never ...

Beatriz Lucille Whitford-Rodriguez, 14, of Chicago, spells her word in the semifinals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in National Harbor, Md. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) The ...

If you weren't playing along at home during Thursday night's final, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real thing. "Éclaircissement." And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the ...

Faizan Zaki, last year’s runner-up, won the coveted award after surviving two dramatic final rounds and calling the pronouncer, “bro.” By Talya Minsberg The 13-year-old champion dropped to the floor ...

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 ...

The nation’s best young spellers gathered in Maryland this week for the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A total of 243 children between the ages of 8 and 14 competed to be the ...