Columnist Justice B. Hill celebrates the dedication of teens who channel their talents into wordcraft—whether in national spelling bees or local poetry slams—and urges Clevelanders to show up ...

Who is Faizan Zaki? Guess the word the Indian origin teen spelt to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2025 Representing the Dallas states, the 13-year-old, Hyderabad origin made this fourth ...

Faizan Zaki won the title of best speller at the Scripps National Spelling Bee after finishing up as the runner-up last year.

13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the Scripps National Spelling Bee with a word many adults would struggle to even pronounce.

The Scripps Spelling Bee has stumped spellers from around the country since 1925. Here are some of the hardest winning words from spelling bee history.

With the National Spelling Bee right around the corner, the folks at WordUnscrambler.pro combed through Google data to find 2025’s most misspelled words in the US and for each state.

Superior eighth grader Blanche Li was a third grader when she competed in her first school spelling bee.

Epistaxis, choledocholithiasis, sphygmomanometer. They’re a medical mouthful. Medical terminology is notoriously challenging to laypeople and medical students alike. On March 19, Yale students put ...

The White House does not have a list of banned words that are restricted from use in official documents and instead gives discretion of word use to individual agencies.

The 18,844 people who started the Honolulu Marathon on Sunday represent an increase of 21% from last year, and the 8,361 who lined up for the Start to Park 10k is 20% more than 2023.