Some of the brightest young minds just finished showcasing their knowledge of the English language. While most might never reach their level of expertise, we wanted to know: Why do we struggle to ...

Twenty-three Stonington Middle School students lined the bleachers in the gymnasium on Wednesday morning and took to the ...

Remember each daily Spelling Bee word list is curated by an editor and doesn’t include every possible solution. If you run ...

W-I-N-N-E-R-S! A look back at the champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee through the 2000s (and the words they spelled to win it all) Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images It's ...

A sixth-grader won her school’s spelling bee just five years after moving to Mesa from the Philippines and learning English.

How many can you get right? No peeking at a dictionary for this surprisingly tricky 4th grade spelling words quiz. Remember those 4th grade spelling words quizzes we took in elementary school? They ...

Elementary school children may be harmed by overuse of tech tools for spelling. Literacy experts are calling for change and ...

The world opening up again in the post-pandemic spells out "g-o-o-d n-e-w-s" for the return of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The annual spelling extravaganza was canceled last year due to ...

Beatriz Lucille Whitford-Rodriguez, 14, of Chicago, spells her word in the semifinals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in National Harbor, Md. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) The ...

Check spelling as you type, or not? Choose here. You use Word’s spelling checker every day, and probably just as often encounter some of the tool’s puzzling behavior. Do you know how to get rid of a ...