Nearly 300 spellers gather this week for the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee This year%27s bee will feature for the first time vocabulary words for competitors to define Spellers come from all 50 ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is here, representing one of the most vigorous — and prestigious — academic competitions in America. Unsurprisingly, a competition as renowned as the national ...

If Snigdha Nandipati, the 14-year-old who won last year's Scripps National Spelling Bee, had been asked to define her winning word, "guetapens," things might have turned out differently. This year, a ...