The National Spelling Bee has gotten harder and harder since it started in 1925. Take a look at some of the most difficult words in the history of the competition.

Bee’s the word! The Scripps National Spelling Bee got its start in 1925, ... 23 Hard Spelling Bee Words That Even Stump Adults. Story by Meghan Jones • 4h. Winning word: albumen.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee returns this week as students from around the United States show off their smarts at the 95th annual spelling competition. The 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee ...

The 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is under way, near Washington, D.C. Linguist Ben Zimmer explains what makes some words difficult to spell — and how the contestants learn to conquer ...

Before last year’s bee, we looked at where spelling bee words come from. English is a beautiful mess and has incorporated words from all sorts of languages. The most common language of origin ...

A word related to milk was hard to draw out. ... a tool that shows hints and statistics for each word as you play Spelling Bee, and covers Saturday, April 29, to Friday, May 5.

As the Scripps National Spelling Bee gets underway, here's what Google Trends says about the words that each state struggles ...

The bee changed the rules so the final contestants’ words don’t come from a 25-word list predetermined by spelling officials, Paige Kimble, bee executive director, said Thursday.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee carries on the tradition by using the Merriam-Webster dictionary as its source of words to this day. This year, 234 qualifying spellers under the age of 16 from ...

Naysa Modi, a 2018 contestant in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, tried (and failed) to spell “bewusstseinslage.” She took second place. French and German words are frequently misspelled in ...

The 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is under way, near Washington, D.C. Linguist Ben Zimmer explains what makes some words difficult to spell — and how the contestants learn to conquer ...