"One thing is just that English in particular is very tricky. It has what people call an opaque orthography," said Ariel ...

The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send ...

The winning word, éclaircissement, was one Zaki told news outlets he "instantly" recognized. While its prefix may conjure ...

Faizan Zaki of Texas is the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee winner after correctly spelling éclaircissement.

Scripps National Spelling Bee champion Faizan Zaki has big plans for his $50,000 prize. Click to see how he wants to help ...

Faizan captured the coveted Scripps Cup on Thursday night after correctly spelling éclaircissement, a French word meaning clarification or enlightenment. (Scripps News) ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee, staged this week in Maryland, is a prestigious annual competition with a rich history and ...

Nathan Settevendemie made it to the 10th round of the annual spelling competition and spelled and defined words like ...

Plano ISD student Faizan Zaki, 13, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night by correctly spelling ...

These mispronounced words are easy to flub. Here's the right way to say them. Most often mispronounced words Struggling with ...

On a national level, the results of the analysis determined that Americans misspell the word “definitely” more than any other, with 33,500 searches for the word’s correct spelling recorded from ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. ( South Dakota News Watch) - The Brookings eighth grader who represented South Dakota at this week’s Scripps ...