Jessica Brown competes in the 2024 Champion City Spelling Bee. The all-ages community event returns this year on July 26. CONTRIBUTED BY SOPHIA LOPEZ.

New Bedford Festival Theatre is hosting an adult-themed spelling bee at Play Arcade, on Friday, to tease its upcoming musical in August.

Faizan Zaki, the 13-year-old champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, spoke with "CBS Mornings Plus" about the tense final rounds and claiming victory a year after finishing as the runner up.

Texas teenager Faizan Zaki won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling "éclaircissement" in the 21st round of the competition.

Faizan Zaki won by correctly spelling the word "éclaircissement." The winner of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee says that even after practicing spelling for nearly 40 hours a week prior to ...

Faizan Zaki, 13, was a favorite to win this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee and was last year's runner-up.

Faizan Zaki nailed his final word to win the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee and the photo is amazing.

Sarvadnya Kadam, a student at Oak Grove Elementary School in Visalia, won second place in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held ...

This year's national spelling bee champion will be the 110th, because the bee ended in a two-way tie several times and an eight-way tie in 2019.