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 ...

STORY: Why is English so hard to spell? There are clear differences between how words are written and how they are said. If English is your first language you may not realize it’s not that normal. In ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — With the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals airing tonight at 8:30, many households will tune in to watch 50 finalists, all under 15 years old, spell difficult words like ...

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 ...

Are you smarter than a spelling bee contestant? If you can spell these words, you might be. Merriam-Webster has announced the hardest words to spell in the English language ahead of the 92nd annual ...

Over 300,000 people searched for help pronouncing "gyro" alone, while that fancy meat and cheese board "charcuterie" ...

Don’t know how to spell clafouti? Don’t feel bad. Nearly one in five words misspelled in the final rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee is derived from the French language. The odds are worse ...

Sarv Dharavane, a DeKalb County fifth grader, has learned thousands of words in his time competing in spelling bees, including one that sums up his experience: difficile. It means difficult or hard to ...