OXON HILL, Maryland – Blaze Blacketer of North Canton misspelled his first word in the Scripps National Spelling Bee and was knocked out of the competition. The 14-year-old eighth grader from ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held ...

Jacques Bailly took a razor blade to the dictionary in 1991, revolutionizing the mechanics of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Before then, the Scripps Bee pronouncers who bestowed tricky words ...

The 2025 bee marks the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, founded in 1925. A total of 243 spellers are competing this year, with finals airing Thursday, May 29, on ION from 8 ...

The best young spellers in the English language are set to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held in 1925 ...

DENVER — One of Colorado's spellers in the Scripps National Spelling Bee advanced from the quarterfinals, while the other was eliminated in the final round of the quarterfinals on Wednesday morning.

The centennial spelling bee began Tuesday morning with preliminaries, in which participants have to pass two rounds — a traditional spelling round and a multiple-choice definition round ...

Three Bay Area middle-schoolers are among the 243 competitors at this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee, which started Tuesday in a Washington, D.C., suburb. The field of contestants ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. May 30, 2024 – Bruhat Soma, 12, of Florida wins the 96th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. June 1, 2023 – Dev Shah ...

Two Sacramento-area students are among the 243 young competitors in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee — celebrating its 100th anniversary — and have advanced past the first two rounds of ...

The bee winner in 1991 at age 13, Lagatta nonetheless struggled adjusting to life outside her rural hometown of Clintonville, Wisconsin — until she got a push from a professor who was a devoted ...