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Definition: Spelling Bee |
Spelling BeeNoun1. A contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Spelling BeeSynonyms: spelldown (n), spelling contest (n). (additional references) |
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The basic rule of spelling a word in the competition is that once having started to spell a word, the speller may start over, but the letter or sequence of letters already spoken may not be changed.
In the United States, spelling bees are annually held from local levels up to the level of the National Spelling Bee which awards a scholarship to the winner. The National Spelling Bee is sponsored by English language newspapers. In 2003, spellers came from the Bahamas and Jamaica as well as the United States.
This kind of competition is depicted in the 2002 Academy Award nominated documentary, Spellbound.
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Screenplays | Remember that spelling bee you won in the first grade? (Billy Madison; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler) | |
Lyrics | Queen Spelling Bee she nailed me (The Scorpion Lament; performing artist: The Roches) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | President Coolidge, standing, full-length, with the seven finalists in the national spelling bee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spelling bee | 313 |
national spelling bee | 167 |
spelling bee words | 34 |
spelling bee list | 16 |
spelling bee word list | 14 |
spelling bee game | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "spelling bee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسابقة التهجئة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Състезание По Правопис. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | concours d'orthographe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαγωνισμόσ ορθογραφίασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תחרות איות (spelldown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gamman lettraghey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellingspay eebay соревнование по орфографии. (various references) certamen de ortografía. (various references) rättstavningstävlan. (various references) imlâ yarışması, heceleme yarışması. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Apis mellifica, Philanthus triangulum. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-g-i-l-l-n-p-s" | |
-3 letters: beelines, bleeping, espiegle, libelees, peelings, sleeping, speeling, spelling, spinelle. | |
-4 letters: beeline, beeping, bellies, belling, besiege, elegies, elegise, ellipse, epigene, legible, libelee, nellies, peeling, pensile, seeling, seeping, selling, spiegel. | |
-5 letters: begins, beiges, beings, belies, belles, bilges, binges, bleeps, enisle, ensile, gelees, genies, genips, glebes, ingles, lebens, libels, lieges, nellie, peeing, penile, pensee, pensil, plebes. | |
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