An eighth-grader at Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly, Nikita said she had been trying since fifth grade to make it into ...

Her commitment paid off when she secured her spot in the national competition for a second time by winning the Boulder Valley Regional Spelling Bee in March. She took first place by correctly spelling ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Florida kids won the last two, will the state see ...

Nikita Ramakrishnan, an eighth grader at Rocky Run Middle School in Fairfax County, Virginia, is preparing to compete in the ...

The best fifth- through eighth-grade spellers from 14 counties ... 25 words that stumped contestants at First Coast Spelling Bee JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – One word -- “methodically”-- earned ...

Li, who won second place in the 2023 state bee, said you can't really prepare for the dictionary words, of which there are 470,000. "You just have to ask for the origin and then guess," she said ...

The speller must not have passed beyond the eighth grade on or before August ... is presented in the entry for the word in a 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee word list. RULE 6 – JUDGES ...