The 2026 Aunt Liza National Spelling Bee Official Word List
This official word list includes all competition words organized by letter count and arranged alphabetically within each category. We wish all contestants the best of luck! Download the PDF or browse the complete list below.
4-Letter Words
100 Words
able, acid, aged, also, area, army, aunt, away, baby, back, bake, ball, band, bank, base, bear, beat, bell, belt, best, bike, bird, blow, blue, boat, body, bomb, book, boot, both, bowl, bulk, burn, bush, busy, cake, calf, camp, card, care, case, cash, city, club, coat, coin, cold, comb, cook, cool, copy, crow, curl, dawn, deaf, dear, door, down, draw, earn, fear, felt, fuel, gain, gaze, gold, hour, howl, idea, idle, idol, limb, mute, myth, noun, paid, path, poem, poet, quit, roam, roof, ruin, safe, self, sign, sink, size, soar, soil, sure, tool, tube, tuna, type, wait, warn, wife, wood, zero.
5-Letter Words
100 Words
actor, agree, alarm, alley, aloud, angry, apple, arena, bagel, basic, beach, begin, below, blood, board, brain, brave, bread, broke, brown, built, carry, cause, chair, cheer, chose, clean, coast, color, couch, cover, crime, crumb, daily, dairy, dance, death, drain, dream, dress, earth, enjoy, exact, false, favor, fever, field, final, floor, fruit, giant, grace, grasp, grief, grown, guest, habit, happy, havoc, heard, heart, honey, horse, house, humor, hurry, image, index, juice, kneel, label, laugh, legal, light, lucky, major, medal, metal, money, month, mourn, mouth, motor, music, noisy, novel, nurse, ocean, orbit, paste, peace, piano, plead, polar, power, prize, quilt, radio, river, rough, ruler, scale, scrap, shout, sight, sixth, sleep, smile, sound, spare, speed, start, storm.
6-Letter Words
100 Words
admire, afford, agency, annual, artist, banana, beauty, bottle, breath, bubble, button, camera, caring, castle, chance, cheese, circle, coffee, column, corner, cotton, cousin, create, credit, degree, desert, detect, dinner, divide, doctor, drawer, easier, engine, enough, estate, fabric, famous, father, female, figure, follow, forest, friend, fright, future, garden, gossip, growth, health, hiking, holder, hopped, impact, infant, inside, insist, invite, jacket, joined, jungle, leader, letter, liquid, little, lovely, making, manual, margin, market, member, memory, minute, mirror, modern, moment, mother, museum, myself, nation, needle, office, orange, parent, planet, pocket, potato, purple, repair, school, season, silver, simple, single, smooth, spring, street, summer, travel, winter, yellow.
7-Letter Words
100 Words
abandon, ability, absence, academy, account, acquire, actress, airport, algebra, amazing, anatomy, antique, apology, applied, approve, archive, arrange, article, attract, awesome, awkward, balance, balcony, balloon, bargain, barrier, believe, builder, cabbage, cabinet, careful, cartoon, cascade, charity, chatter, cheated, chicken, choking, climbed, closing, clutter, collage, collect, comfort, command, comment, compete, concern, confirm, confuse, connect, consent, contest, control, convert, cooling, counsel, courage, covered, crashed, crystal, cuddled, curtain, cyclone, decimal, decline, deliver, dentist, dessert, diamond, disease, distant, drawing, earlier, eastern, elastic, elderly, empower, enjoyed, episode, example, excited, eyelash, failure, fastest, feature, fiction, fireman, fitness, flutter, foolish, forgive, freedom, furnace, gateway, geology, glitter, goddess, greater, grocery, healthy, holiday, journey.
8-Letter Words
100 Words
absolute, accurate, addition, adoption, advanced, alphabet, ancestor, anything, applause, approval, argument, audience, autumnal, backward, baseball, basement, behavior, birthday, building, calendar, careless, carrying, category, chairman, charming, cheerful, children, circular, clothing, colorful, comedian, complete, composer, computer, conclude, conflict, congress, consider, consumer, continue, contract, contrary, coughing, creature, criminal, customer, daughter, daylight, decision, decrease, dedicate, defender, delivery, describe, designer, detailed, diameter, dictator, dinosaur, disaster, distance, division, dominate, doubtful, downtown, drainage, educator, elevator, eligible, embraced, employer, engineer, enormous, entrance, envelope, equality, equation, evaluate, evidence, exciting, exercise, expected, explorer, exposure, fabulous, familiar, festival, fidelity, folklore, forehead, forgiver, guardian, handsome, hospital, innocent, kindness, language, lifetime, mountain.
9-Letter Words
100 Words
agreement, appetizer, attention, beautiful, beginning, breakfast, brilliant, candidate, carefully, celebrate, challenge, chocolate, classroom, condition, confusion, continent, continued, cooperate, dangerous, decidedly, decreased, dedicated, defeating, defensive, delicious, democracy, dependent, described, desirable, detection, developed, different, difficult, direction, disappear, discovery, disguised, education, effective, efficient, elevation, emergency, enjoyment, equipment, everybody, excellent, explained, explosion, fantastic, fascinate, following, fortunate, furniture, gathering, generally, gentleman, geography, governing, guideline, happiness, headlight, healthier, historian, household, hydrology, hygienist, hypnotist, important, invention, knowledge, librarian, lightning, magazine, nutrition, operation, paragraph, passenger, practical, president, principal, professor, pronounce, questioner, recognize, rectangle, remember, scientist, secretary, September, signature, situation, telephone, tradition, vegetable, wonderful.
10-Letter Words
100 Words
accelerate, acceptable, accomplish, allegiance, apprentice, assessment, assignment, astonished, atmosphere, attachment, attendance, attraction, background, blackboard, breathless, capability, collection, comparison, conclusion, conference, confidence, connection, consistent, contagious, continuous, contribute, convenient, coordinate, correction, correspond, councilman, counseling, courageous, creativity, curriculum, dedication, deficiency, definition, deliberate, dependable, depression, dictionary, discipline, discussion, distribute, efficiency, employment, engagement, evaluation, eventually, excellence, expression, facilitate, federation, foundation, frequently, friendship, generation, generosity, government, graduation, helicopter, historical, importance, impressive, impossible, incomplete, incredible, instrument, interested, journalism, leadership, literature, management, meaningful, membership, motivation, newspaper, obligation, permission, population, prediction, presidency, profession, protection, reasonable, reflection, regulation, remarkable, restaurant, revolution, scholarship, simulation, suggestion, technology, television, transition, understood, university, wilderness.
11-Letter Words
100 Words
abandonment, achievement, acknowledge, adolescence, advancement, agriculture, appointment, arrangement, calculation, celebration, certificate, coincidence, competition, consequence, consistency, convenience, cooperation, corporation, declaration, description, destruction, development, documentary, elimination, entertainer, environment, explanation, exploration, familiarity, fascination, fundamental, grandfather, grandmother, immediately, improvement, independent, information, inspiration, instruction, intelligence, interesting, leadership, measurement, opportunity, participant, performance, personality, photography, possibility, preparation, presidential, probability, publication, recognition, requirement, scholarship, significant, temperature, traditional, translation, transparent, trustworthy, uncertainty, vaccination, willingness, workstation, application, association, citizenship, combination, composition, confidence, destination, distinction, educational, electronics, engineering, expectation, forgiveness, imagination, interaction, millionaire, observation, partnership, perspective, progression, publication, relationship, responsible, satisfaction, supervision, terminology, transaction, underground, understanding, unfortunate, ventilation, vocabulary.
12-Letter Words
100 Words
agricultural, anatomically, biodiversity, conveniently, deliberately, disciplinary, acceleration, accidentally, accomplished, alphabetical, announcement, appreciation, architecture, astronomer, championship, civilization, conversation, contribution, corporation, declaration, development, dictionary, disappointed, distribution, effectiveness, encyclopedia, entertainment, environment, evolutionary, experimental, explanation, fermentation, foundation, friendship, geographical, government, graduation, headquarters, imagination, independence, information, intelligence, introduction, investigation, journalism, kindergarten, leadership, legislation, marketplace, mathematics, neighborhood, organization, participant, photography, presentation, presidential, professional, publication, relationship, responsibility, scholarship, significance, substitution, surroundings, temperature, Thanksgiving, traditional, translation, transportation, understanding, university, vaccination, vocabulary, wilderness, withdrawal, workstation, accommodation, administration, anticipation, appreciation, civilization, coordination, determination, disciplinary, encouragement, entertaining, forgiveness, humanitarian, illustration, introduction, jurisdiction, manufacturer, notification, organization, perseverance, prescription, productivity, receptionist, satisfaction, subscription.
15-Letter Words
100 Words
characterization, disproportionate, experimentation, individualistic, miscommunication, misunderstanding, acknowledgment, administration, authenticating, collaboration, commercialization, communication, conceptualized, conservationist, constitutional, constructional, contextualized, conversational, counterbalance, determination, differentiation, discrimination, dissatisfaction, diversification, documentation, effectivenesses, electrification, environmental, experimentation, familiarization, generalization, hospitalization, identification, implementation, improvisation, industrialized, informational, institutional, instrumentation, intellectualism, international, interpretation, investigation, justification, kindergarteners, legitimization, manifestation, multiplication, nationalization, organizational, personalization, professionalize, rationalization, recommendation, reconstruction, rehabilitation, representation, responsibility, specialization, standardization, strengthening, synchronization, transportation, underdeveloped, understanding, unfortunately, universalizing, unpredictably, visualization, waterproofing, accountability, adventurousness, appropriateness, beautification, classifications, commodification, confrontational, congratulations, contemporaries, credentializing, dependability, diagnostically, discoverability, effectivenesses, emotionalizing, entrepreneurial, familiarization, fictionalization, governmentalism, humanitarianism, individualistic, intensification, liberalization, miscalculation, objectification, overconfidence, personalization, quantification, simplification.