Full disclosure: I didn't make it past the first round of my third-grade spelling bee. Oh, sure, I had my revenge. I was school champion of the sixth-grade geography bee and got knocked out at the ...

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The word list for the Scripps National Spelling Bee is crafted by a panel of 21 people, including five former Scripps champions. Here's how they do it. Skip Navigation ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Ruby Wang, a fifth grade student at Saint Joseph Elementary School in Missoula, is competing in the 100th annual Scripps Spelling Bee this week in Washington, D.C.

This data is based on visitors to Spelling Bee Buddy, a tool that shows hints and statistics for each word as you play Spelling Bee, and covers Saturday, Aug. 5, to Friday, Aug. 11.

For the first time since 1962, two students were declared co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee after they exhausted the official word list before either could prevail. ...

Fifth grader Jayden Jiang, who attends Girard Academic Music Program in Philadelphia, won the regional spelling bee in March for the second straight year to qualify for the Scripps National ...

ST. HELENA — The 5th Grade Spelling Bee started with simple words – Alice Baxter spelled “wish” as the first word and Annette Glynn spelled “said” correctly as the second ...