OFFICIAL STUDY RESOURCE OF

THE SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE
 

As the sponsor, SAGE is not authorized to reproduce or distribute any study lists provided by Scripps. Schools that are enrolled in the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee have already received access to these materials. If you have not received any of these study materials, please contact your school’s spelling bee coordinator.

Words used in the Preliminaries and Finals of the SAGE Ventura County Spelling Bee come from the 2023 Words of the Champions and Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged online.

SAGE does not have free/discount codes to offer for Merriam-Webster Unabridged.

2023 Words of the Champions

Words of the Champions: Your Key to the Bee is the official study resource from the Scripps National Spelling Bee. This resource will help prepare spellers for a 2022 or 2023 classroom, grade-level, school, and the 2023 SAGE Ventura County Spelling Bee. All words in this guide may be found in the official Bee dictionary, Merriam-Webster Unabridged.

School Spelling Bee Coordinators at enrolled schools have free access to a downloadable PDF version of Words of the Champions by logging in to spellingbee.com.

Also, Words of the Champions is also available for purchase as a Kindle eBook and a paperback on Amazon.

Word Club – provided FREE by Scripps

To help spellers master Words of the Champions, we highly encourage you to download the Word Club app for mobile devices and tablets. Spelling and vocabulary quizzes for all 4,000 words in the Words of the Champions study booklet are available within the app free of charge.

To keep your spelling champ motivated, they can use the app to play games, take quizzes and complete activities that feature pronunciations from Dr. Jacques Bailly, the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s official pronouncer.

The 2023 version of Scripps’ Word Club app is now available for Android in the Google Play Store. The Word Club app will be available for iOS (via the App Store) beginning September 12, 2022.