As if the Scripps National Spelling Bee wasn't stressful enough already, spellers will now have to know what words mean in the Bee's first vocabulary evaluation. A combination of onstage spelling, ...

Kansas City area spellers headed into their first challenge as part of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday morning: a computer-based spelling and vocabulary test. Misspellings or incorrect ...

To bee, or not to bee, has now become a tougher question to answer -- even for whiz kid spellers. The Scripps National Spelling Bee has announced that it is changing the format of its annual ...

If a young person has his or her eyes on winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee this week at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., near Washington, D.C., it’s ...

It’s not enough to be a fantastic speller anymore. A student who wants to win the National Spelling Bee must now be a whiz at vocabulary. The Scripps National Spelling Bee will add the evaluation of ...

(CNN) — It’s not enough to be a fantastic speller anymore. A student who wants to win the National Spelling Bee must now be a whiz at vocabulary. The Scripps National Spelling Bee will add the ...

COMPUTER spell checks have created an "auto-correct generation" unable to spell common words such as "necessary" and "separate", a survey has found. Only one in five adults out of 2000 who took a ...

As if it weren't hard enough to spell "cymotrichous," now the National Spelling Bee will expect contestants to know that it means "having wavy hair." "This is a significant change in the Scripps ...