After losing last year in a tiebreaker known as a “spell-off”, the 13-year-old became only the fifth runner-up to come back and win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The Scripps Spelling Bee has stumped spellers from around the country since 1925. Here are some of the hardest winning words from spelling bee history.

The 97th Scripps National Spelling Bee preliminary rounds have begun. Here's how the mid-Hudson Valley's Cora Massaro did.

Georgia is among the states that require students to meet a reading benchmark at the end of 3rd grade or be held back, though parents can appeal that determination.

Tori Spelling admitted a conversation with her teen daughter Hattie led her to finally put her foot down and file for divorce from husband Dean McDermott.

School of Medicine holds third medical spelling bee. Balanoposthitis was the winning word Medical terminology is notoriously challenging to both laypeople and medical students alike. On March 19, Yale ...

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Bright Horizon 8th-grader wins county spelling bee, with obscure word for Russian carriage Duaa Ouznali's winning word was 'droshky.' Her strategy for studying spelling, she says, is 'listening to ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has drawn attention after its approved list of study words for third-graders looking to compete in the upcoming spelling competition was shared online. Study ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee endorsed a feminist spelling of "women" to be used by third-grade students in schools enrolled in its annual spelling competition.