Bougainvillea, scherenschnitte and cymotrichous. These are just some of the winning words from the last decade of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The long-standing annual competition has crowned ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Before he was asked to spell “elucubrate,” Jacques Bailly had never ...

Hello friends. Nice to see you back for another round of spelling stumpers. Judging by your kind emails last Sunday, you lot take your spelling seriously. Repeat after me: It's just an internet quiz.

How proud are you right now? Super proud, super proud beyond words. This was *** hard and the spell off. Oh my God, I, I can't even. I, I, we could not watch, you know, we were having, you know, I ...

So it all started when I heard when uh Doctor Bailey gave me the word um I, I immediately recognized it um and I knew the definition and that it was from French so I just went for it. I uh started ...