Brittany Kasko is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital.

Ready for a really challenging quiz? Go take it if you dare, but brace yourself -- it’s tough: An adult spelling quiz: 5 of the hardest words in the English language It’s only five questions, but you ...

There are some words in English that are very tricky to spell, especially if English is not your mother tongue. For years, words like ‘through’, ‘thorough’, and ‘though’ have been causing headaches ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will kick off on May 28 as 245 spellers descend on National Harbor, Maryland, for four days of competition. Ahead of the event, a word selection panel gathers to ...

After reporting on local schools participating in the Scripps Spelling Bee, our newsroom decided to put readers to the test.

In recent years, an international team of linguists partnered with Merriam-Webster to analyze a decade’s worth of words. According to the linguists, nature and natural science accounted for 38% of ...

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The Oxford English Dictionary estimates there are over 170,000 words in the English language, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Only a few other languages reportedly have more words than the ...