The Scripps Winning Words provides the list of Scripps National Spelling Bee (https://spellingbee.com) champion words since inception.
You may hover on the winning word and click to see detailed information pertaining to the winning word.
Year | Winning Word | Champion Name |
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2024 | abseil | Bruhat Soma |
2023 | psammophile | Dev Shah |
2022 | moorhen | Harini Logan |
2021 | murraya | Zaila Avant-garde |
2019 (1) | auslaut | Rishik Gandhasri |
2019 (2) | erysipelas | Erin Howard |
2019 (3) | bougainvillea | Saketh Sundar |
2019 (4) | aiguillette | Shruthika Padhy |
2019 (5) | pendeloque | Sohum Sukhatankar |
2019 (6) | palama | Abhijay Kodali |
2019 (7) | cernuous | Christopher Serrao |
2019 (8) | odylic | Rohan Raja |
2018 | koinonia | Karthik Nemmani |
2017 | marocain | Ananya Vinay |
2016 (1) | Feldenkrais | Jairam Hathwar |
2016 (2) | gesellschaft | Nihar Saireddy Janga |
2015 (1) | scherenschnitte | Vanya Shivashankar |
2015 (2) | nunatak | Gokul Venkatachalam |
2014 (1) | feuilleton | Sriram J. Hathwar |
2014 (2) | stichomythia | Ansun Sujoe |
2013 | knaidel | Arvind Mahankali |
2012 | guetapens | Snigdha Nandipati |
2011 | cymotrichous | Sukanya Roy |
2010 | stromuhr | Anamika Veeramani |
2009 | Laodicean | Kavya Shivashankar |
2008 | guerdon | Sameer Mishra |
2007 | serrefine | Evan O'Dorney |
2006 | Ursprache | Kerry Close |
2005 | appoggiatura | Anurag Kashyap |
2004 | autochthonous | David Tidmarsh |
2003 | pococurante | Sai Gunturi |
2002 | prospicience | Pratyush Buddiga |
2001 | succedaneum | Connor Flanagan |
2000 | demarche | George Thampy |
1999 | logorrhea | Nupur Lala |
1998 | chiaroscurist | Jody-Anne Maxwell |
1997 | euonym | Rebecca Sealfon |
1996 | vivisepulture | Wendy Guey |
1995 | xanthosis | Justin Tyler Carroll |
1994 | antediluvian | Steven Burri |
1993 | kamikaze | Geoff Hooper |
1992 | lyceum | Amanda Goad |
1991 | antipyretic | Joanne Lagatta |
1990 | fibranne | Amy Marie Dimak |
1989 | spoliator | Scott Isaacs |
1988 | elegiacal | Rageshree Ramachandran |
1987 | staphylococci | Stephanie Petit |
1986 | odontalgia | Jon Pennington |
1985 | milieu | Balu Natarajan |
1984 | luge | Daniel Greenblatt |
1983 | Purim | Blake Giddens |
1982 | psoriasis | Molly Dieveney |
1981 | sarcophagus | Paige Pipkin |
1980 | elucubrate | Jacques Bailly |
1979 | maculature | Katie Kerwin |
1978 | deification | Peg McCarthy |
1977 | cambist | John Paola |
1976 | narcolepsy | Tim Kneale |
1975 | incisor | Hugh Tosteson García |
1974 | hydrophyte | Julie Ann Junkin |
1973 | vouchsafe | Barrie Trinkle |
1972 | macerate | Robin Kral |
1971 | shalloon | Jonathan Knisely |
1970 | croissant | Libby Childress |
1969 | interlocutory | Susan Yoachum |
1968 | abalone | Robert L. Walters |
1967 | Chihuahua | Jennifer Reinke |
1966 | ratoon | Robert A. Wake |
1965 | eczema | Michael Kerpan Jr. |
1964 | sycophant | William Kerek |
1963 | equipage | Glen Van Slyke III |
1962 | esquamulose | Nettie Crawford, Michael Day |
1961 | smaragdine | John Capehart |
1960 | eudaemonic | Henry Feldman |
1959 | catamaran | Joel Montgomery |
1958 | syllepsis | Jolitta Schlehuber |
1957 | schappe | Dana Bennett, Sandra Owen |
1956 | condominium | Melody Sachko |
1955 | crustaceology | Sandra Sloss |
1954 | transept | William Cashore |
1953 | soubrette | Elizabeth Hess |
1952 | vignette | Doris Ann Hall |
1951 | insouciant | Irving Belz |
1950 | meticulosity | Diana Reynard, Colquitt Dean |
1949 | dulcimer | Kim Calvin |
1948 | psychiatry | Jean Chappelear |
1947 | chlorophyll | Mattie Lou Pollard |
1946 | semaphore | John McKinney |
1942 | sacrilegious | Richard Earnhart |
1941 | initials | Louis Edward Sissman |
1940 | therapy | Laurel Kuykendall |
1939 | canonical | Elizabeth Ann Rice |
1938 | sanitarium | Marian Richardson |
1937 | promiscuous | Waneeta Beckley |
1936 | eczema | Jean Trowbridge |
1935 | intelligible | Clara Mohler |
1934 | brethren | Sarah Wilson |
1933 | torsion | Alma Roach |
1932 | invulnerable | Dorothy Greenwald |
1931 | foulard | Ward Randall |
1930 | albumen | Helen Jensen |
1929 | luxuriance | Virginia Hogan |
1928 | knack | Betty Robinson |
1927 | abrogate | Dean Lucas |
1926 | cerise | Pauline Bell |
1925 | gladiolus | Frank Neuhauser |