More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

A Georgia State researcher found that spelling-focused interventions improved overall literacy skills, including for students ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before ...

As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee's word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before panelists can debate ...

Teachers often report the dilemma of children scoring 100 percent correct on a Friday spelling test but misspelling the same words the following week in their writing. Cognitive psychology has given ...

The nation’s most accomplished junior spellers took to the stage Thursday night for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, competing for $50,000 in prize money that was won, in the end, by 14-year-old Dev ...

In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, to “use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his eight-year-old sister because she wasn’t ...

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the ...