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QUIZ: Test your vocab ahead of the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee

Preliminaries start May 30 for the Bee
The competition will include new rules in the finals, including spellers needing to know a word’s meaning and a potential “spell-off” to ensure there are no ties and only one champion.
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Get your thinking caps on, because we are fast approaching the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Bee Week 2023 will happen at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center from May 28 to June 2.

The national competition preliminaries begin on Tuesday, May 30, and end with the finals on Thursday, June 1.

The 2022 winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee was Harini Logan of San Antonio, Texas.

Are you looking for a challenge?
Check out the quiz below and see if you can guess the definitions of some level three and four spelling bee words:

The National Spelling Bee started back in 1925.