Sample Word List
2008 word list
2007 word list
Remember that words used in The AARP Magazine National Spelling Bee are found in Merriam-Webster's collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, 2003. That is a big book with lots of words and only the Word Wizard and the Pronouncer know which words will be used for the Bee. They select the words and keep them under lock and key until the day of the big event. So the following list will help you get started studying as an individual or in a group. Good Spelling!
Words used in the 2008 Bee
Written Round 1
1. welcome
2. bowsprit
3. expatriate
4. translucent
5. dossier
6. inebriation
7. skep
8. chilblains
9. tramontane
10. jelled
11. errant
12. compunctious
13. liege
14. netiquette
15. raddled
16. primeval
17. kith
18. besmirch
19. repertoire
20. vaudeville
21. prolixity
22. rowans
23. olefin
24. losel
25. orphrey
Written Round 2
26. purfling
27. spoor
28. riffles
29. thwart
30. aplomb
31. insinuate
32. quidnunc
33. salubrious
34. pogonip
35. sitzmark
36. calotte
37. galloons
38. rales
39. mulct
40. bureaucracy
41. panoptic
42. hydrangea
43. monocotyledonous
44. internecine
45. atmosphere
46. pule
47. catadromous
48. japer
49. ombre
50. embarrassment
Written Round 3
51. fuggy
52. polyptychs
53. hydrometeorology
54. fissiparous
55. buskins
56. scutcher
57. chaffinches
58. synchronicity
59. libidinal
60. obtund
61. yawls
62. renunciatory
63. ukase
64. efflorescence
65. indecipherable
66. villein
67. garret
68. arenaceous
69. furze
70. impecunious
71. salaamed
72. tambourines
73. freshets
74. jejune
75. piton
Written Round 4
76. miasmically
77. greaves
78. tabard
79. vexillologist
80. nares
81. obelia
82. vizsla
83. exedrae
84. platinocyanide
85. xerophilous
86. dyne
87. quoits
88. lamia
89. transpicuous
90. ringgit
91. chough
92. leukotriene
93. bharal
94. petrographer
95. squawk
96. longueurs
97. tatterdemalion
98. recce
99. crwth
100. finis
Warm-Up Oral Round
101. paucity
102. pleurisy
103. patina
104. tranquil
105. calendar
106. acrimonious
107. equine
108. hasty
109. gigabyte
110. inveigh
111. hubris
112. college
113. maturation
114. nuisance
115. regimen
115a. surrogate
Championship Oral Rounds
116. argentiferous
117. kirtle
118. guerdon
119. sybaritic
120. foozling
121. orgulous
122. hemidemisemiquaver
123. dicotyledonous
124. harijan
125. coracle
126. synovitis
127. orgeat
128. tmesis
129. azulejos
130. houri
131. rochet
132. pterylae
133. byssi
134. giaour
135. zerk
136. jarrah
137. clerisy
138. faille
139. sforzando
140. gnocchi
141. orrery
142. huisache
143. capsaicin
144. eriophyid
145. glyceraldehyde
146. involucre
147. surcease
148. auxinic
149. chatoyant
150. gnathic
151. probenecid
152. exuviation
153. montmorillonite
154. hied
155. whilom
156. stacte
157. atelier
158. isallobaric
159. blepharospasm
160. phosphorescence
161. gnotobiotically
162. farinaceous
163. naumachiae
164. atrabilious
165. sprachgefuhl
166. clepsydra
167. oubliette
168. peculate
169. vernissage
170. ructions
171. seneschal
172. colporteur
173. adscititious
174. metrorrhagia
175. jelutong
176. exergue
177. abecedarian
178. pantofles
179. obsequies
180. hasenpfeffer
181. bouleversement
182. guillemot
183. megakaryocyte
184. portiere
185. usufructuary
186. tolyl
187. czardas
188. wye
189. escritoire
190. oneiromancy
191. gnomon
192. achene
193. hematopoiesis
194. boehmite
195. joual
196. kinnikinnick
197. vendeuse
198. loupe
199. rijsttafel
200. proboscidean
201. gyres
202. aioli
203. coryza
204. papilionaceous
205. gauleiter
206. eicosanoids
207. lixiviate
208. redingote
209. auxotrophic
210. gaur
211. untimeous
212. ipecacuanha
213. zooxanthella
214. rawinsonde
215. guidwillie
216. xylophagous
217. vogie
218. autoecious
219. logomachies
220. choucroute
221. uraei
222. usquebaugh
223. ngultrum
224. blesbok
225. morceaux
226. dreich
227. kamaaina
228. estaminets
229. veloce
230. gossypol
231. butyrophenone
232. huaraches
233. wallydraigle
234. oothecae
235. pycnometer
236. fauteuil
237. dybbuk
238. saithe
239. jaboticaba
240. yataghan
241. burgoos
242. naltrexone
243. tzigane
244. cholelithiasis
245. nifedipine
246. onchocerciasis
247. pycnogonid
248. roentgenogram
249. quattuordecillion
250. keratomileusis
251. intussusception
252. botryoidal
253. myoinositol
254. scyphistoma
255. douroucouli
256. triiodothyronine
257. euphausiid
258. voussoir
259. wampumpeag
260. boiserie
261. amphisbaena
262. dyscrasia
263. zwitterion
264. bryony
265. granophyre
266. nauplii
267. debouch – the winning word
268. umbones
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