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 ...

Scripps National Spelling Bee championship premieres on ION Thursday, May 29 beginning at 8/7c. The championship coverage is available for streaming through ION on DirecTV. The popular streaming ...

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

Thanks to the word “gobbe,” a 7th grader from Silver Lake is competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee final on Thursday ...

This year's national spelling bee champion will be the 110th, because the bee ended in a two-way tie several times and an ...

Amelia “Bindi” Ray will take the national stage as the youngest Maryland competitor in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

George Weghorst, a regional spelling bee champion from Fort Thomas, Kentucky, has been studying thousands of words in preparation for the national competition in Washington, D.C.

Riley Beckett, a third grader at Stanwood Elementary School, has been relentlessly practicing her older brother Luke’s ...

In 2023 and ’24, Levi won in the second- and third-grade division. He enjoys challenges like the spelling bee because “I really ... grader Hayoon Bae took first place in the younger group ...