After reporting on local schools participating in the Scripps Spelling Bee, our newsroom decided to put readers to the test.

And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. If you weren't playing along at home, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real ...

One Little Rock School District third grader proved you can actually spell “winner” more than one way.

Kopal Tare, a junior at Dublin High School, turned a childhood love of books — from “Harry Potter” to “Percy Jackson” — into Bee Stars, an online spelling ...

Sixty-five of Dorchester School District Two’s (DD2) best young spellers took the stage Jan. 23 for the district’s annual spelling bee at the Summers Corner Performing Arts Center.

Zachary Yeager, a seventh-grader at Chippewa Jr./Sr. High School, has moved on to the third round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland. Yeager correctly spelled his Round 1 word, ...

Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Texas, has just won this year's national Scripps Spelling Bee. His winning word was "éclaircissement," a French word that means clarification, explanation or ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Faizan Zaki's enthusiasm for spelling nearly got the better of him. Ultimately, his joyful approach made him the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The favorite entering the ...