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Sometimes a word can be so hard to spell that any attempts are too garbled for autocorrect to offer helpful suggestions. Whenever I find myself struggling to spell a word, I double-tap the Command key ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites, ...

Some words are just so tricky to spell. Ask me to spell gaurantee and I'll defenitely get it wrong. OK, I was just kidding; I misspelled those on purpose. But, I was the champion of my second, sixth, ...

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The 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee, which was held in Washington, D.C., from May 31 through June 1, featured 275 student spellers and went through 19 rounds before New Jersey 13-year-old Katharine ...

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 spelling is a challenge for you, you’re not alone. According to a large-scale study of 3,500 English speakers conducted by OnePoll, one in six people says their spelling is occasionally so bad, ...

When I was growing up, playground canon held that antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) was the longest word. It was also received fact that longer words were ...

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. But as the Scripps National Spelling Bee gets underway, a study by ...

In a dramatic finish, Bruhat Soma, from Tampa, Fla., defeated Faizan Zaki, a 12-year-old from Plano, Texas, in the competition’s second spell-off ever. Emmett Lindner Bruhat Soma held his trophy high ...