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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | éclaircissement | Faizan Zaki |
| 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 |