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The Scripps National Spelling Bee reaches its climax this week. Can you spell the words that won the competition in years past? Spellings are from Webster’s Third New International Dictionary

A stupidly easy effort was the key back in 1930. How do you spell this word, meaning a noisy disturbance or quarrel?

Fracas

Fracah

Frackas

Phracar

In 1967 this dog breed clinched the competition for Jennifer Reinke ...

Chiuawawah

Chiuahua

Chihuahua

Chiwawa

From 1965, this word is a common skin condition

Eczema

Ecszema

Eczsema

Exema

The thing about skin conditions is that they're pretty hard to spell. Here's another one, which Molly Dieveney won with in 1982 ...

Psoeriasis

Psoriasis

Soriasis

Psoriaesis

Go on, another skin one for you. This word from the 1962 edition means not scaly - or smooth skinned

Esquamuulos

Esquamulose

Esquamulouse

Esquamulos

"A tendency to extreme wordiness". Spell this zinger from the 1999 Spelling Bee

Logorhea

Logorrhea

Logorrhhea

Loggarhea

Anamika Veeramani won in 2010 after getting this one, a type of medical instrument ...

Strommuhr

Stromour

Strohmuhr

Stromuhr

This is from the 2011 edition. Having wavy hair is spelled ...

Cymotrichous

Khaemotrichous

Caehmotrichous

Cymortrichous

1942's winner means profane or unholy ...

Sacreligous

Sacreligious

Sacrilegious

Sacralegious

Jody-Anne Maxwell from Jamaica was the first non-American winner, in 1998. Her word, a type of painter, was ...

Chiaroscurist

Chiaroscourist

Chiaeroscourist

Chiarosccurist

This word, derived from an ancient city in Greek Asia Minor won Kavya Shivashankar the prize in 2009

Laodiceaen

Loadicaean

Laodaecian

Laodicean

And to wrap things up, a gimme from 2005. San Diego's Anurag Kashyap knew how to spell this musical term ...

Apoggiatura

Appoggiatura

Apoggiattura

Apogiaturra

0 and above.

If you're going to be bad, it's best to be really bad. Well done

1 and above.

If you're going to be bad, it's best to be really bad. Well done

2 and above.

If you're going to be bad, it's best to be really bad. Well done

3 and above.

An octopus picking answers at random would have done better than you

4 and above.

Distinctly mediocor... mediocur... average

5 and above.

Distinctly mediocor... mediocur... average

6 and above.

Distinctly mediocor... mediocur... average

7 and above.

Not bad, but nothing a few years perched over a dictionary wouldn't solve

8 and above.

Not bad, but nothing a few years perched over a dictionary wouldn't solve

9 and above.

Excellent stuff. You know your Succedaneum from your Succedanneum

10 and above.

Excellent stuff. You know your Succedaneum from your Succedanneum

11 and above.

Excellent stuff. You know your Succedaneum from your Succedanneum

12 and above.

Perfect! Get your entry in for next year's competition. Provided you're a kid

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