Are you smarter than a 13-year-old? Take our Scripps Spelling Bee test and find out
“Éclaircissement.”
And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night.
If you weren’t playing along at home, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real thing. You can’t stop and ask the judges for the Latin root or whatever, but do your best.
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