The biographical blurbs about competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee include a litany of other interests, from sports to musical instruments to science competitions to Indian classical ...

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

The 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee came down to a spell-off for the second time ever, and Bruhat Soma walked away as the 2024 champion. Soma, 12, spelled 29 words correctly in 90 seconds the ...

As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel ... and beyond — with instructions that those sheets of paper cannot leave the room.

Some of the nation’s brightest young minds are putting their knowledge of the English language to the test at the annual Scripps National Spelling ... record-breaking, eight-way tie in the 2019 bee?

Bruhat Soma was just 7 years old when his parents began to notice that he had an unusual knack for memorizing things — words, numbers, entire Sanskrit verses known as slokas found in the ...

In 2024, 12-year-old Bruhat Soma of St. Petersburg won the 96th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in a record-breaking 29-word spell-off. The year before, eighth-grader Dev Shah of Largo took ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is back ... the previous day set a record with 3.1 million viewers. Forty-nine of the spellers competed in a previous Bee. Two of last year's finalists, Kirsten ...

Dev Shah is a ninth-grader living in Largo, Fla. He won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in June. I never expected to win. I had lost more than two dozen spelling bees since I started competing ...