Twelve-year-old Ananya Vinay wins National Spelling Bee Ananya's victory was the first time since 2013 that the bee has declared a single champion. It ended in a tie for three consecutive years.

What Makes the National Spelling Bee So Fascinating? First of all, most of them haven’t yet learned how to hide what they’re thinking, much less how they feel, under nationally televised pressure.

What Makes the National Spelling Bee So Fascinating? First of all, most of them haven’t yet learned how to hide what they’re thinking, much less how they feel, under nationally televised pressure.

The National Spelling Bee's Twitter account brilliantly took down an Internet troll Bee afraid. (That was intentional, Spelling Bee. Please don't hurt us.)

The making of a spelling bee national champion

Phoenix-area high schoolers pose up in lettered shirts spelling NI**ER A suburban Phoenix school district is taking disciplinary action after a photo of students spelling out a racial slur with T-shirts sparked outrage after surfacing on social media.

Classic Spelling Mistakes That'll Have You On The Ground Laughing Knowing how to spell is really important. I mean, nothing looks quite as dumb as a horrible spelling mistake. Spelling errors lead to bad grades, discarded...

Tori Spelling Reveals 90210 Romances: Actress Slept with Jason Priestly, Kissed Luke Perry Tori Spelling dished on her romantic rendezvous with several of her former 90210 castmates during Lifetime's Tori Spelling: Celebrity Lie Detector

Tori Spelling Admits She Had Sex With Two Beverly Hills, 90210 Co-Stars Tori Spelling got grilled, and not by a Hibachi (too soon?) during an upcoming one-hour special airing on Lifetime called Tori Spelling: Celebrity Lie Detector. Spelling was asked a series of juicy questions by host Louise Roe, one being whether or n Read more ... ot she hooked up with any of her former Beverly Hi…

What's A Thamakau? Spelling Bee Is More About Entertainment Than English Linguist Geoff Nunberg says it's fitting that the Scripps National Spelling Bee is broadcast by ESPN. (And, by the way, a thamakau is a kind of canoe used in Fiji.)