Here are the winning words from Scripps National Spelling Bee
contests (1925 - 2010).
1925: gladiolus
1970: croissant
1926: cerise
1971: shalloon
1927: luxuriance
1972: macerate
1928: albumen
1973: vouchsafe
1929: asceticism
1974: hydrophyte
1930: fracas
1975: incisor
1931: foulard
1976: narcolepsy
1932: knack
1977: cambist
1933: torsion
1978: deification
1934: deteriorating
1979: maculature
1935: intelligible
1980: elucubrate
1936:interning
1981: sarcophagus
1937: promiscuous
1982: psoriasis
1938: sanitarium
1983: Purim
1939: canonical
1984: luge
1940: therapy
1985: milieu
1941: initials
1986: odontalgia
1942: sacrilegious
1987: staphylococci
1943: not held
1988: elegiacal
1944: not held
1989: spoliator
1945: not held
1990: fibranne
1946: semaphore
1991: antipyretic
1947: chlorophyll
1992: lyceum
1948: psychiatry
1993: kamikaze
1949: dulcimer
1994: antediluvian
1950: meticulosity
1995: xanthosis
1951: insouciant
1996: vivisepulture
1952: vignette
1997: euonym
1953: soubrette
1998: chiaroscurist
1954: transept
1999: logorrhea
1955: crustaceology
2000: demarche
1956: condominium
2001: succedaneum
1957: schappe
2002: prospicience
1958: syllepsis
2003: pococurante
1959: catamaran
2004: autochthonous
1960: eudaemonic
2005: appoggiatura
1961: smaragdine
2006: Ursprache
1962: esquamulose
2007: serrefine
1963: equipage
2008: guerdon
1964: sycophant
2009: Laodicea
1965: eczema
2010: stromuh
1966: ratoon
2011: cymotrichous
1967: Chihuahua
1968: abalone
1969: interlocutory
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee in the United States.
It’s open to winners of sponsored American regional spelling bees,
and also open to other country’s contestants (who must also be
regional spelling-bee winners).
Run on a not-for-profit basis by the E. W. Scripps Company,
it’s held the week following the U.S. Memorial Day weekend.
This year’s 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee will be held from
June 1-2, 2011 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center
in Maryland (near Washington, D.C.)
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