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Winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee

Every year, thousands of middle schoolers compete for a chance to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Can you name every winner since 1925?
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Year
Ending Word
Name
1925
gladiolus
Frank Neuhauser
1926
cerise
Pauline Bell
1927
abrogate
Dean Lucas
1928
knack
Betty Robinson
1929
luxuriance
Virginia Hogan
1930
albumen
Helen Jensen
1931
foulard
Ward Randall
1932
invulnerable
Dorothy Greenwald
1933
torsion
Alma Roach
1934
brethren
Sarah Wilson
1935
intelligible
Clara Mohler
1936
eczema
Jean Trowbridge
1937
promiscuous
Waneeta Rose Beckley
1938
sanitarium
Marian Richardson
1939
canonical
Elizabeth Ann Rice
1940
therapy
Laurel Kuykendall
1941
initials
Louis Edward Sissman
1942
sacrilegious
Richard Earnhart
1943
N/A (World War II)
1944
N/A (World War II)
1945
N/A (World War II)
1946
semaphore
John McKinney
1947
chlorophyll
Mattie Lou Pollard
1948
psychiatry
Jean Chappelear
1949
onerous
Kim Calvin
1950
meticulosity
Diana Reynard
meticulosity
Colquitt Dean
1951
insouciant
Irving Belz
1952
vignette
Doris Ann Hall
1953
soubrette
Elizabeth Hess
1954
transept
William Cashore
1955
crustaceology
Sandra Sloss
1956
condominium
Melody Sachko
1957
schappe
Dana Bennett
Sandra Owen
1958
syllepsis
Jolitta Schlehuber
1959
catamaran
Joel Montgomery
1960
eudaemonic
Henry Feldman
1961
smaragdine
John Capehart
1962
esquamulose
Nettie Crawford
Michael Day
1963
equipage
Glen Van Slyke III
1964
sycophant
William Kerek
1965
eczema
Michael Kerpan Jr.
1966
ratoon
Robert A. Wake
1967
chihuahua
Jennifer Reinke
1968
abalone
Robert L. Walters
1969
interlocutory
Susan Yoachum
1970
croissant
Libby Childress
1971
shalloon
Jonathan Knisely
1972
macerate
Robin Kral
1973
vouchsafe
Barrie Trinkle
1974
hydrophyte
Julie Ann Junkin
1975
incisor
Hugh Tosteson García
1976
narcolepsy
Tim Kneale
1977
cambist
John Paola
1978
deification
Peg McCarthy
1979
maculature
Katie Kerwin
1980
elucubrate
Jacques Bailly
1981
sarcophagus
Paige Pipkin
1982
psoriasis
Molly Dieveney
1983
Purim
Blake Giddens
1984
luge
Daniel Greenblatt
1985
milieu
Balu Natarajan
1986
odontalgia
Jon Pennington
1987
staphylococci
Stephanie Petit
1988
elegiacal
Rageshree Ramachandran
1989
spoliator
Scott Isaacs
1990
fibranne
Amy Marie Dimak
1991
antipyretic
Joanne Marie Lagatta
1992
lyceum
Amanda Goad
1993
kamikaze
Geoff Hooper
1994
antediluvian
Ned G. Andrews
1995
xanthosis
Justin Tyler Carroll
1996
vivisepulture
Wendy Guey
1997
euonym
Rebecca Sealfon
1998
chiaroscurist
Jody-Anne Maxwell
1999
logorrhea
Nupur Lala
2000
demarche
George Thampy
2001
succedaneum
Sean Conley
2002
prospicience
Pratyush Buddiga
2003
pococurante
Sai Gunturi
2004
autochthonous
David Tidmarsh
2005
appoggiatura
Anurag Kashyap
2006
Ursprache
Kerry Close
2007
serrefine
Evan O'Dorney
2008
guerdon
Sameer Mishra
2009
Laodicean
Kavya Shivashankar
2010
stromuhr
Anamika Veeramani
2011
cymotrichous
Sukanya Roy
2012
guetapens
Snigdha Nandipati
2013
knaidel
Arvind Mahankali
2014
stichomythia
Sriram J. Hathwar
Ansun Sujoe
2015
scherenschnitte
Vanya Shivashankar
Gokul Venkatachalam
2016
Feldenkrais
Jairam Hathwar
Nihar Saireddy Janga
2017
marocain
Ananya Vinay
2018
koinonia
Karthik Nemmani
2019
auslaut
Rishik Gandhasri
2019
auslaut
Erin Howard
Saketh Sundar
Shruthika Padhy
Sohum Sukhatankar
Abhijay Kodali
Christopher Serrao
Rohan Raja
2020
N/A (COVID-19 Pandemic)
2021
murraya
Zaila Avant-garde
2022
moorhen
Harini Logan
2023
psammophile
Dev Shah
2024
abseil
Bruhat Soma
2025
éclaircissement
Faizan Zaki
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4 Comments
aestheticdirt
+2
Level 53
Oct 16, 2025
0/10 not one kid asked to spell icup
YjGMD
+1
Level 57
Oct 19, 2025
Crazy how easy some of the older words are compared to today's words.
KiloNova
+1
Level 61
Oct 19, 2025
Looking at the words this makes sense. In 1928 we're spelling 'knack' and in 2025 we're spelling 'éclaircissement'. I've never even heard of that word in my life and I doubt anyone else has either.
Amphi64
+1
Level 33
Dec 28, 2025
Noooo I have to make more quizzes >:)
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