Paige Kimble, the director of the National Spelling Bee and the 1981 champ, said of Buddiga's fall: "That was the most amazing moment I saw in a bee." Kimble has her own spelling bee comeback story.

Faizan Zaki, a seventh-grader from Allen, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He shared that he visualizes typing words on a keyboard to help him spell them.

Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Faizan Zaki fell to the floor after capturing the title Thursday. He felt himself losing breath even before he finished spelling “éclaircissement ...

Winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee aren’t celebrities, exactly. Those who competed before it was televised by ESPN — it now airs on Scripps-owned ION — aren’t often recognized by ...

SPRINGFIELD - The school kids who represented Illinois in the Scripps National Spelling Bee last month might have thought the competition was over.

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.

Sree Vidya Siliveri recently completed the 8th grade at Alice B. Landrum Middle School in St. Johns County. She won the First Coast Spelling Bee for the second year in a row in March of this year ...

These coaches, who are often former spelling bee contestants or teachers, charge between $50 to over $200 an hour. Some coaches work with students one on one on a weekly basis all year . 2.

Sarah Chen, a sixth-grader from the Little Rock School District, has been crowned the 2025 state Spelling Bee champion, and on to the National Contest.