Words that are difficult enough to boot spellers from spelling bee competition rounds are called knockout words. With the premier spelling bee in the nation kicking off this week in Washington, D.C., ...

Think you could hold your own among the 562 spellers at this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee? Below is a list of the final five words that knocked out spellers last year before 14-year-old ...

WASHINGTON -- Ever wonder if those spelling bee kids know the meanings of some of those big words? Now they'll have to prove that they do. Organizers of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday ...

In a world dominated by autocorrect and communication by emoji, a sacred annual gathering of linguistic student phenoms persists. These word whizzes have advanced from regional competitions to ...

MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio — There likely is one word on the minds of Cardinal High School students who are performing this year’s spring musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”: R-E-L-I-E-F. The ...

Henry is the author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell Detroit News, December 1906. Roosevelt sits stunned in a boxing ring after losing his match with the ...