Winning Words
National Spelling Bee Winning Words from 1925 to 2010
gladiolus 1925 Frank Neuhauser, Louisville, Kentucky abrogate 1926 Pauline Bell, Louisville, Kentucky luxuriance 1927 Dean Lucas, Akron, Ohio albumen 1928 Betty Robinson, South Bend, Indiana asceticism 1929 Virginia Hogan, Omaha, Nebraska fracas 1930 Helen Jensen, Des Moines, Iowa foulard 1931 Ward Randall, White Hall, Illinois knack 1932 Dorothy Greenwald, Des Moines, Iowa torsion 1933 Alma Roach, Akron, Ohio deteriorating 1934 Sarah Wilson, Portland, Maine intelligible 1935 Clara Mohler, Akron, Ohio interning 1936 Jean Trowbridge, Des Moines, Iowa promiscuous 1937 Waneeta Beckley, Louisville, Kentucky sanitarium 1938 Marian Richardson, Louisville, Kentucky canonical 1939 Elizabeth Ann Rice, Worcester, Massachusetts therapy 1940 Laurel Kuykendall, Knoxville, Tennessee initials 1941 Louis Edward Detroit, Michigan sacrilegious 1942 Richard Earnhart, El Paso, Texas semaphore 1946 John McKinney, Des Moines, Iowa chlorophyll 1947 Mattie Lou Pollard, Atlanta, Georgia psychiatry 1948 Jean Chappelear, , Akron, Ohio dulcimer 1949 Kim Calvin, Canton, Ohio meticulosity 1950 Diana Reynard, Cleveland, Ohio meticulosity 1950 Colquitt Dean, Atlanta, Georgia insouciant 1951 Irving Belz, Memphis, Tennessee vignette 1952 Doris Ann Hall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina soubrette 1953 Elizabeth Hess, Phoenix, Arizona transept 1954 William Cashore, Norristown, Pennsylvania crustaceology 1955 Sandra Sloss St. Louis, Missouri condominium 1956 Melody Sachko, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania schappe 1957 Sandra Owen, Canton, Ohio schappe 1957 Dana Bennett, Denver, Colorado syllepsis 1958 Jolitta Schlehuber, Topeka, Kansas catamaran 1959 Joel Montgomery, Denver, Colorado eudaemonic 1960 Henry Feldman, Knoxville, Tennessee smaragdine 1961 John Capehart, Tulsa, Oklahoma esquamulose 1962 Nettie Crawford, El Paso, Texas esquamulose 1962 Michael Day, St. Louis, Missouri equipage 1963 Glen Van Slyke III, Knoxville, Tennessee sycophant 1964 William Kerek, Akron, Ohio eczema 1965 Michael Kerpan Jr., Tulsa, Oklahoma ratoon 1966 Robert A. Wake, Houston, Texas chihuahua 1967 Jennifer Reinke, Omaha, Nebraska abalone 1968 Robert L. Walters, Topeka, Kansas interlocutory 1969 Susan Yoachum, Dallas, Texas croissant 1970 Libby Childress, Winston-Salem, North Carolina shalloon 1971 Jonathan Knisely, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania macerate 1972 Robin Kral, Lubbock, Texas vouchsafe 1973 Barrie Trinkle, Fort Worth, Texas hydrophyte 1974 Julie Ann Junkin, Birmingham, Alabama incisor 1975 Hugh Tosteson, San Juan, Puerto Rico narcolepsy 1976 Tim Kneale, Syracuse, New York cambist 1977 John Paola, Pennsylvania deification 1978 Peg McCarthy, Topeka, Kansas maculature 1979 Katie Kerwin, Denver, Colorado elucubrate 1980 Jacques Bailly, Denver, Colorado sarcophagus 1981 Paige Pipkin, El Paso, Texas psoriasis 1982 Molly Dieveney, Denver, Colorado Purim 1983 Blake Giddens, El Paso, Texas luge 1984 Daniel Greenblatt, Leesburg, Virginia milieu 1985 Balu Natarajan, Chicago, Illinois odontalgia 1986 Jon Pennington, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania staphylococci 1987 Stephanie Petit, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania elegiacal 1988 Rageshree Ramachandran, Sacramento, California spoliator 1989 Scott Isaacs, Denver, Colorado fibranne 1990 Amy Marie Dimak, Seattle, Washington antipyretic 1991 Joanne Lagatta, Madison, Wisconsin lyceum 1992 Amanda Goad, Richmond, Virginia kamikaze 1993 Geoff Hooper, Memphis, Tennessee antediluvian 1994 Ned G. Andrews, Knoxville, Tennessee xanthosis 1995 Justin Tyler Carroll, Memphis, Tennessee vivisepulture 1996 Wendy Guey, West Palm Beach, Florida euonym 1997 Rebecca Sealfon, New York chiaroscurist 1998 Jody-Anne Maxwell, Kingston, Jamaica logorrhea 1999 Nupur Lala, Tampa, Florida demarche 2000 George Abraham Thampy, St. Louis, Missouri succedaneum 2001 Sean Conley, Aitkin, Minnesota prospicience 2002 Pratyush Buddiga, Denver, Colorado pococurante 2003 Sai R. Gunturi, Dallas, Texas autochthonous 2004 David Scott Pilarski Tidmarsh, South Bend, Indiana appoggiatura 2005 Anurag Kashyap , San Diego, California Ursprache 2006 Kerry Close, Asbury Park, New Jersey serrefine 2007 Evan M. O’Dorney, Walnut Creek, California guerdon 2008 Sameer Mishra, Lafayette, Indiana Laodicean 2009 Kavya Shivashankar, Olathe, Kansas stromuhr 2010 Anamika Veeramani, North Royalton, Ohio
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