Definitions

spelling bee

NOUN

spelling competition

Synonyms

WEAK

spelldown spelling contest spelling game spelling test

Example Sentences

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Try our spelling bee below to see how you stack up.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

A lot of them had excelled in school: We talked to a boy that had just won a spelling bee, for example.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle corrected a 12-year-old spelling bee contestant on camera, incorrectly instructing him to add the letter “e” onto the end of the word “potato.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Also worth noting: I won my grade-wide spelling bee in first grade by correctly spelling "hamburger."

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2025

Same way I spelled my word in the spelling bee on Friday morning.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor