Faizan Zaki, age 13, spelled the word “eclaircissement” and collapsed on the floor in victory as confetti showered him at the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee last week. The annual competition took ...

If you’re serious about building your authority vocabulary, you need to be mindful not simply of the words you say, but of how you say them. Auslaut. Erysipelas. Saxicolous. Geeldikkop. Before you ...

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. Using Google Trends search data from the start of the year through ...