The Bee currently offers the following four FREE study resources:
1.
2008 Spell It!, our official study
resource from Merriam-Webster, available at www.myspellit.com
2. Carolyn's Corner, a 36-week study course offered during the traditional school year
3. Merriam-Webster's A Dictionary of Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms
4. The
Consolidated Word List
The Consolidated Word List is a
compilation of over 100 Scripps National Spelling Bee word lists dating as far
back as 1950. It appears below in four sections totaling 794 pages. It is FREE.
There are 23,413 unique words. Parts of speech, language origins, pronunciations,
definitions, and sentences are provided for 10,139 (43%) of these words.
Please
note that the Consolidated Word List Files posted below were first posted
online in early 2004. The Bee has no immediate plans to update the Consolidated Word List.
The Consolidated Word List is in
Adobe Acrobat® portable document format (PDF). To access these PDF files,
you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader® installed on your computer. Chances
are good that the Adobe Acrobat Reader® is already installed on your computer.
However, if it is not installed on your computer, click
here to download it. It is FREE.
I. Preface , Pronunciation Key,
and Guide for Language of Origin: (3
pages, 269k)
VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE PREFACE!
II. Words
Appearing Infrequently
Pages
1-51 (311k)
Pages
52-103 (316k)
Pages
104-153 (308k)
III. Words Appearing with Moderate Frequency
Pages
1-60 (384k)
Pages
61-120 (385k)
Pages
121-180 (383k)
Pages 181-240 (279k)
Pages
241-289 (327k)
IV. Words Appearing Frequently
Pages
1-59 (400k)
Pages
60-118 (396k)
Pages 119-177 (399k)
Pages
178-237 (404k)
Pages
238-297 (402k)
Pages
298-349 (361k)