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These are the winning words from every National Spelling Bee since 1925

Peg McCarthy of Topeka, Kansas, spells the world “deification” to win the 51st National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., June 8, 1978. The runner-up Lyn Sue Kahng, seated left, puts her head in her hands

The 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee kicked off on Wednesday with nearly 300 young spellers from around the country gunning for a $40,000 top prize.

The field of 291 children will be whittled down to one champion at Thursday’s final in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

Since the inaugural competition in 1925, the words featured in the bee have become increasingly more difficult and obscure, requiring participants to have a commanding knowledge of root words, etymology, and world languages.

Scripps’s list of “winning words” from previous competitions gives a glimpse at this evolution. Relatively simple words such as “knack,” “therapy,” and “initials” dominated earlier installments of the spelling bee, while modern-day champions have had to tackle humdingers like “feuilleton,” “nunatak,” and “gesellschaft.”

The shift in difficulty can be partly attributed to ESPN’s coverage of the bee, which has attracted more students to the competition, Scripps spokeswoman Valerie Miller said. This is the 24th year ESPN will air the spelling bee.

But the biggest reason is simply that the spellers have gotten better.

“Words are more difficult now because the skills of the students also have expanded,” Miller told Business Insider. “These are the best of the best spellers, and the words they get in the national finals should be the greatest challenge.”

Here are some of the championship-clinching words from previous spelling bees:

1925 — gladiolus

The championship word from the inaugural National Spelling Bee in 1925 was “gladiolus,” a flowering plant in the iris family.

Eleven-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Kentucky correctly spelled it to take home the top prize — $500 in gold pieces and a trip to the White House.

When he returned to Louisville, crowds greeted him with a ticker-tape parade and bouquets of aptly chosen gladiolus flowers, according to The Washington Post’s obituary of Neuhauser, who died in 2011.

The New York Times called Neuhauser’s winning word “a cakewalk by modern standards” that “harks back to simpler times.”

In the above photo, sixth-place finisher Patrick Kelly poses with President Calvin Coolidge.

1936 — eczema

Jean Trowbridge of Iowa correctly spelled “eczema” — a skin condition — to clinch the 1936 spelling bee. She also had to correctly spell “predilection,” which another finalist had missed.

Three decades later, “eczema” would resurface as the winning word at the 1965 bee.

1960 — eudaemonic

Henry Feldman of Tennessee correctly spelled “eudaemonic” to win the 1960 spelling bee. “Eudaemonic” means “producing happiness.”

1967 — chihuahua

Jennifer Reinke of Nebraska clinched the 1967 title by correctly spelling “chihuahua.” The dog breed shares its name with the Mexican state it originates from.

1970 — croissant

Libby Childress of North Carolina aced the word “croissant” to win the 1970 title.

1978 — deification

“Deification” was the winning word at the 1978 spelling bee, correctly spelled by Peg McCarthy of Kansas.

“Deification” is the act of treating someone like a god.

1987 — staphylococci

By the mid-1980s, the words used in the spelling bee finals became dramatically more difficult. Stephanie Petit of Pennsylvania won the 1987 bee by spelling “staphylococci,” the plural form of a type of disease-causing bacteria.

1998 — chiaroscurist

Jody-Anne Maxwell of Jamaica won the 1998 spelling bee, becoming the first non-American champion in the event’s history.

Maxwell clinched the championship by spelling “chiaroscurist,” a painter who uses shadows and exaggerated light contrasts for artistic effect.

2005 — appoggiatura

San Diego’s Anurag Kashyap won the 2005 spelling bee by spelling “appoggiatura,” a word for an embellishing musical note.

20011 — cymotrichous

Sukanya Roy of Pennsylvania won the 2011 spelling bee by correctly spelling “cymotrichous,” a way to describe wavy hair.

2015 — scherenschnitte, nunatak

Two spellers were named co-champions in 2015 after the finalists exhausted the entire list of words.

Vanya Shivashankar of Kansas correctly spelled “scherenschnitte” — the art of paper cutting — to earn her share of the title.

Missouri’s Gokul Venkatachalam clinched with an equally obscure word — “nunatak,” a word of Greenlandic origin referring to a hill or mountain completely surrounded by glacial ice.

2016 — Feldenkrais, gesellschaft

Last year’s spelling bee saw another tie after finalists exhausted the entire word list.

The two winning words were “Feldenkrais,” spelled by Jairam Hathwar of New York, and “gesellschaft,” spelled by Nihar Sai Reddy Janga of Texas.

“Feldenkrais” is a type of exercise therapy devised by Israeli engineer Moshe Feldenkrais. “Gesellschaft,” in social theory, is a word for a society in which human relations are impersonal.

Check out the entire list of winning words here.

And here’s the list of every winning word since 1925:

1925	gladiolus
1926	cerise
1927	luxuriance
1928	albumen
1929	asceticism
1930	fracas
1931	foulard
1932	knack
1933	torsion
1934	deteriorating
1935	intelligible
1936	interning
1937	promiscuous
1938	sanitarium
1939	canonical
1940	therapy
1941	initials
1942	sacrilegious
1946	semaphore
1947	chlorophyll
1948	psychiatry
1949	dulcimer
1950	meticulosity
1951	insouciant
1952	vignette
1953	soubrette
1954	transept
1955	crustaceology
1956	condominium
1957	schappe
1958	syllepsis
1959	catamaran
1960	eudaemonic
1961	smaragdine
1962	esquamulose
1963	equipage
1964	sycophant
1965	eczema
1966	ratoon
1967	Chihuahua
1968	abalone
1969	interlocutory
1970	croissant
1971	shalloon
1972	macerate
1973	vouchsafe
1974	hydrophyte
1975	incisor
1976	narcolepsy
1977	cambist
1978	deification
1979	maculature
1980	elucubrate
1981	sarcophagus
1982	psoriasis
1983	Purim
1984	luge
1985	milieu
1986	odontalgia
1987	staphylococci
1988	elegiacal
1989	spoliator
1990	fibranne
1991	antipyretic
1992	lyceum
1993	kamikaze
1994	antediluvian
1995	xanthosis
1996	vivisepulture
1997	euonym
1998	chiaroscurist
1999	logorrhea
2000	demarche
2001	succedaneum
2002	prospicience
2003	pococurante
2004	autochthonous
2005	appoggiatura
2006	Ursprache
2007	serrefine
2008	guerdon
2009	Laodicean
2010	stromuhr
2011	cymotrichous
2012	guetapens
2013	knaidel
2014	feuilleton, stichomythia
2015	scherenschnitte, nunatak
2016	Feldenkrais, gesellschaft

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The 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee kicked off on Wednesday with nearly 300 young spellers from around the country gunning for a $40,000 top prize.

The field of 291 children will be whittled down to one champion at Thursday’s final in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

But the biggest reason is simply that the spellers have gotten better.