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Texas teen Faizan Zaki spelled his way to victory in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee with a word most adults can't even pronounce. His winning word? Éclaircissement. Here's how the 13-year ...

Prior to this bee, the last time there was a finals spelling round with no eliminations was in 2019. (In 2021 and 2024, there were zero finalists eliminated in vocabulary rounds.) 9:11 p.m. EDT ...

Scripps National Spelling Bee finals live stream, TV channel The Bee’s finals will air on Scripps-owned channel ION. The finals will also air on Scripps’ other national networks: Bounce, Grit ...

Because he made sure there was no spell-off. But he also didn’t make it easy on himself. Faizan bested Sarvadnya Kadam in the 20th round to win the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 29.

This year’s champion will be the 110th, because the bee ended in a two-way tie several times and an eight-way tie in 2019. Indian Americans have dominated the competition for a quarter-century.

Below is your chance to spell it correctly, along with other past words used to crown champion spellers, ahead of the National Spelling Bee that kicked off May 27. Here are five of the Scripps ...

Aguirre, an 11-year-old from Spokane Valley, finished as the runner-up in the Inland Northwest Spelling Bee, losing to 14-year-old Ford. Both participants were home-schooled.

Jacques Bailly, a past Scripps National Spelling Bee winner, has served as the head pronouncer for decades. He picked 10 words for The Washington Post’s quiz.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2025, and while the bragging rights for winning the tournament are second to none, the prize money is pretty good, too.

The bee is now held just outside the nation's capital, at a convention center on the banks of the Potomac River in Oxon Hill, Maryland. It starts Tuesday and concludes Thursday night. This will be ...

Apple today released iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5, the fifth updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating systems that came out last September. iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 come a little over a month ...