Unsurprisingly, a competition as renowned as the national spelling bee comes with several rules. There's more to it than simply spelling words correctly, as contestants traverse several rounds of ...

WASHINGTON – In an effort to make it less likely that the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee will have co-champions for the fourth year in a row, bee organizers announced rules changes Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling Bee won't be so quick to force spellers into a lightning-round tiebreaker to decide a champion this year, a shift that follows criticism of the ...

The 2016 Spelling Bee co-champions Nihar Janga, 11, of Austin, Texas, and Jairam Hathwar, 13, of Corning, New York. Scripps National Spelling Bee Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0. For the past three years, the ...

Eleven students will compete in the 93rd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney ... How to watch, live stream, TV info, rules, finalists.

A bad start. It was a rocky beginning for English spelling. Quite simply, the 23-letter Roman alphabet has never been adequate — even Old English (spoken 450-1150) had 35 or so sounds, and our ...

With that, here are the rules for competition for the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee, including eligible entrants, word usage, competition format and championship scenarios: Scripps National ...