Spelling bees aren’t really a thing in Germany, I think mostly because German language is too regular and not idiosyncratic enough when it comes to spelling (unlike English) to make those interesting.

Learning correct spelling is still important and still a skill that has to be taught, so I don’t want to chalk it all up to that.

Especially compound nouns like that one you quoted, however, that are just constructed from very simple German words (no loan words) are usually no problem when it comes to spelling.

I’m fact, my own spelling troubles as a native German speaker are mostly limited to some loan words and grammatical issues. I always struggle with which preposition to pick („dem“ or „den“) because I never properly learned to think about cases.

(There actually is a spelling mistake in that word, though. The “t” in the end is not correct.)

I think spelling bees are a thing pretty unique to the English language. In most languages you can infer spelling from pronunciation (and the other way around) with high certainty. Of course, any living language is complicated and has its share of rules and exceptions, but usually only enough to cover in the first couple school years, not enough to make it interesting to run spelling competitions.

Up until 2004 it was the Bundesrechtsanwaltsgebührenordnung, so it did get easier (and I still misspelled it. no points for me)

It's easy to spell, as are most German words. It's just a lot of letters.

Ironically, the word you quoted contains spelling errors.