The phrase "spelling contest" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to a competition in which participants are judged on their ability to spell words correctly. For example, "My school held a spelling contest to see who could spell the most words correctly."
Aged 11, he went to Washington to compete in the national spelling contest.
The sleepy upper house, which is elected by members of provincial assemblies, usually attracts outsiders' attention just once a year, when it hosts the national spelling contest.
The goal is to make words by placing the blocks in a row before time runs out; it's great for an impromptu spelling contest.
That's long overdue". Then he waved into the camera like an overjoyed schoolboy who's just won a spelling contest and knows his grandparents will be proud of him.
The spelling contest, however, relies not on YIVO linguists but on Webster's Third New International Dictionary, and that is what contestants cram with, said a bee spokesman, Chris Kemper.
So the occasionally presented "adults only" variation on this musical about the agonies and ecstasies of a competitive provincial spelling contest -- with bawdy and otherwise rude dialogue substituted throughout -- is not simply a raunchy indulgence but also a riotously close look at the characters' most ticklish thoughts.
In some public schools, even spelling contests are considered archaic, because they might make the losers feel inferior.
They would play math games, compete in spelling contests and redo old homework assignments.
There was some awful cricket played by two associate teams in what proved to be an utterly spell-binding contest and both sides admitted that after the game.
Ironically, the same angry white male is shocked when Asians win state and national math competitions and the East Indians beat white Americans in English spelling bee contests.
"I'd love to build a time machine and hold a spelling and grammar contest between kids now and those same kids twenty years ago," he said.
