Appendix:Scripps winning words
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The following are winning words from the Scripps National Spelling Bee, a spelling bee of the USA.
- See also the Scripps National Spelling Bee's official website.
- 1925: gladiolus
- 1926: abrogate
- 1927: luxuriance
- 1928: albumen
- 1929: asceticism
- 1930: fracas
- 1931: foulard
- 1932: knack
- 1933: torsion
- 1934: deteriorating
- 1935: intelligible
- 1936: interning
- 1937: promiscuous
- 1938: sanitarium
- 1939: canonical
- 1940: therapy
- 1941: initials
- 1942: sacrilegious
The Bee was suspended during the WWII years of 1943–1945.
- 1946: semaphore
- 1947: chlorophyll
- 1948: psychiatry
- 1949: dulcimer
- 1950: meerschaum [1] / meticulosity
- 1951: insouciant
- 1952: vignette
- 1953: soubrette
- 1954: transept
- 1955: crustaceology
- 1956: condominium
- 1957: n/a [2]
- 1958: syllepsis
- 1959: catamaran
- 1960: eudaemonic
- 1961: smaragdine
- 1962: n/a [3]
- 1963: equipage
- 1964: sycophant
- 1965: eczema
- 1966: ratoon
- 1967: chihuahua
- 1968: abalone
- 1969: interlocutory
- 1970: croissant
- 1971: shalloon
- 1972: macerate
- 1973: vouchsafe
- 1974: hydrophyte
- 1975: incisor
- 1976: narcolepsy
- 1977: cambist
- 1978: deification
- 1979: maculature
- 1980: elucubrate
- 1981: sarcophagus
- 1982: psoriasis
- 1983: Purim
- 1984: luge
- 1985: milieu
- 1986: odontalgia
- 1987: staphylococci
- 1988: elegiacal
- 1989: spoliator
- 1990: fibranne
- 1991: antipyretic
- 1992: lyceum
- 1993: kamikaze
- 1994: antediluvian
- 1995: xanthosis
- 1996: vivisepulture
- 1997: euonym
- 1998: chiaroscurist
- 1999: logorrhea
- 2000: demarche
- 2001: succedaneum
- 2002: prospicience
- 2003: pococurante
- 2004: autochthonous
- 2005: appoggiatura
- 2006: Ursprache
- 2007: serrefine
- 2008: guerdon
- 2009: Laodicean
- 2010: stromuhr
- 2011: cymotrichous
- 2012: guetapens
- 2013: knaidel
- 2014: stichomythia / feuilleton
- 2015: scherenschnitte / nunatak
- 2016: Feldenkrais / gesellschaft
- 2017: marocain
- 2018: koinonia
- 2019: auslaut / erysipelas / bougainvillea [4] / aiguillette / pendeloque / palama / cernuous / odylic
- 2021: Murraya
- 2022: moorhen
- 2023: psammophile
- ^ co-champion Diana Reynard correctly spelled "meerschaum" to end a round; Colquitt Dean spelled "meticulosity" correctly at the beginning of a new round and the contest was declared a draw since the word list had been exhausted (https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G_NOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Wk4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1625%2C4149376)
- ^ the Scripps website lists "schappe" as the winning word for 1957; however, both of the remaining spellers misspelled it and the contest was declared a draw (https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a11HAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tv4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5616%2C4583285)
- ^ the Scripps website lists "esquamulose" as the winning word for 1962; however, both of the remaining spellers misspelled it and the contest was declared a draw (https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dD0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O-UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5075%2C5240982)
- ^ bougainvillaea and bougainvillia were listed as acceptable alternate spellings for "bougainvillea" (https://secure.spellingbee.com/public/results/2019/round_results/summary/20)