US EditionScripps National Spelling Bee 2025: What to know
- The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee will feature 243 spellers competing Tuesday through Thursday at a convention center in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
- Spellers qualified by winning regional bees and passing two preliminary rounds that tested spelling and vocabulary with Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary words.
- Notable returning competitors include last year's runner-up Faizan Zaki, 13, from Texas, who lost in a lightning-round spell-off tiebreaker, as well as other top contenders aged 12 to 14.
- The champion will be awarded a personalized trophy, $52,500 in prize money, educational materials from Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica, and a $1,000 donation to a school of their choice, while each finalist will receive $2,000.
- Scripps, a Cincinnati-based media company, will broadcast semifinals and finals on ION with more judge discretion on spell-off timing, continuing the bee's long tradition since 1925 despite past cancellations.
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The Scripps National Spelling Bee: An American Institution
On June 17, 1925, 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Louisville found himself in Washington, DC, where he spelled the word “gladiolus” correctly and was named the winner of the first national spelling bee. One hundred years later, nearly 250 of the best young spellers are gathered this week in Maryland, just outside the nation’s capital, for the 2025 event, which the E.W. Scripps company has sponsored since 1941. Two years ago, Dev Shah of Largo, FL…
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To win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, contenders must also master geography
There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee. Scripps has begun relying on obscure geographical terms to winnow down the field of spellers in the later rounds. While the words are included in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary, they often don’t follow familiar roots or language patterns. That denies accomplished spellers of the tools they use to figure out how to spell words they've never seen bef…
13-year-old San Diego student competing in national spelling bee
(Above: Interview with Duaa Ouznali, San Diego spelling bee champion, on March 7, 2025) SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- An eighth-grader from San Diego County will be competing in the 97th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee near the nation's capital after being crowned the local champion in March. Duaa Ouznali, 13, from Bright Horizon Academy was named the county's representative to the national competition after she correctly spelled the winning wo…
South Florida spellers compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
Two South Florida students have advanced in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.13-year-old Nikhil Sha is from Miami, representing Miami Palmetto Middle School and 12-year-old Hadi Abbasi is from Pembroke pines, representing Franklin Academy Pembroke Pines - Middle School.According to the Scripps website, Nikhil likes to play games and read books. He also codes in multiple programming languages and likes to complete coding problems. He finds joy i…
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