2015 Spelling Bee Word List
for words marked * or ^, see note at end
Round 1 Words
Round 1A
fun, cat, dog, net, gum, bat, pig, mix, bag, top, mop, ran, bet, big, run, box, sad, tap, mat, pet, bad, log,
cup, pup, leg, wag, fin, sip, dip, *nun, chin, them,
Round 1B
milk, hand, stop, fast, brown, moth, name, bake, kite, home, green, ask, girl, bird, nest, sing, make,
gate, joke, white, cost, ball, shell, tool, cry, book, want, flash, both, took, grub, sulk, chair, chase,
Round 1C
water, store, sister, dream, giant, pretty, why, care, clean, sleep, under, fresh, bring, start, luck, carry,
taste, crisp, easy, field, sting, never, choose, paint, space, school, wrist, please, quick, smell, wash,
match, poem, trust, blink,
Round 2 Words
Round 2A
charge, climb, should, earth, twice, lounge, point, watch, speech, speck, wrong, scared, since, young,
^learned, month, knock, sweat, touch, doubt, sphere, width, fudge, plunge, scratch, shrink, *stairs,
serve, straw, choice, ^scone, change,
Round 2B
worry, trouble, hurry, corner, family, almost, danger, robot, because, special, nasty, below, enjoy,
afraid, thunder, possum, melon, insist, people, orange, hobby, messy, forever, pencil, answer, annoy,
basic, borrow, ocean, amount, gentle, cubby,
Round 2C
stretching, shadow, noisy, radio, crowded, kitchen, library, enough, angry, remove, usual, gnome,
scarce, gravel, solar, central, weird, buzzer, laugh, surprise, decide, piano, success, future, prefer,
percent, beggar, blindness, gossip, cranky, pumpkin, alphabet, vacation, pierce,
Round 3 Words
cupboard, neighbour, margarine, position, lightning, disguise, naughty, circular, voyage, toddler,
platypus, disappear, crayon, tortoise, satellite, sheriff, chocolate, laundry, cottage, balance, giraffe,
eraser, arrange, donor, retina, dazzling, forecast, suitable, package, ^recess, reptile, ignore, choir,
Round 4 Words
aerial, Boronia, mosquito, activity, scarred, actively, foreign, mosquito, thoughtful, twilight, magnify,
fibre, beauty, recently, digital, surgeon, cocoon, mammal, swollen, gesture, rumour, pigeon, variety,
violence, grateful, ancient, freight, mixture, reptile, seizure, Australia, author, silence, scissors,
2015 Spelling Bee Word List
Words for Championship Rounds
Championship Round 1
government, column, scientific, responsible, character, scheduled, rhythm, conscience, imaginary,
sentence, companion, fastening, *century, scholar, cousin, whistling, forfeit, prediction, impossible,
evidence, environment, sympathy, imagination, committee, collaborate, strengthen, nonsense,
opportunity, enormous, accomplish, disappearance, familiar, beneath, location, innocent, guarantee,
ancient, tongue, specific, misery, stingy,
Championship Round 2
investigate, astonishment, originality, personality, estimation, graduation, dialogue, inferiority,
incredible, stereo, chemistry, fatigue, ^enveloped, vehicular, function, constitution, generosity,
economic, cylinder, harass, abbreviate, picturesque, molecular, amateur, uniquely, ^mischievous,
^approximate, descendant, epidemic, communicate, schematic, substitute, acknowledge, gigantic,
contagious, rehearsal, license, sustainable, poisonous, ingredient,
Championship Round 3
desolate, apologetic, deceitful, concept, durable, partial, declaration, auxiliary, deprivation, hideous,
nausea, studious, reputable, chronic, credential, altercation, grotesque, poignant, authentic, leisure,
convenience, sabotage, camouflage, tedious, expedient, hallucination, flexibility, stringent, feasibility,
mediator, tutorial, capitalism, communism, interior, entrance, congratulate, happiness, collection,
ordinary, headache,
Championship Round 4
democracy, assassination, apartheid, ^extraordinary, kookaburra, renewal, cancellation, optimism,
pessimism, opportunity, excitement, juxtaposition, alignment, optometrist, hyperbole, definite,
ridiculous, momentarily, embarrassment, accidentally, prosperous, tragedy, sanctuary, necessary,
customary, category, definition, benevolent, politician, threaten, priority, intercept, alternately, ceramic,
essential, receipt, engineer
Parents / Carers please note: Your child may be asked to spell only one of the words in each round;
Words are asked in the exact order on the list for each round/sub-round;
Your child needs to clearly ‘say the word, spell the word, say the word’;
Words need to be spelled exactly as they are listed (eg proper nouns must start
with a capital letter)
Your child will be eliminated if s/he spells a word incorrectly;
^Some words may have alternative pronunciations (eg ^research –
reSEARCH/ REsearch) and your child needs to be aware of these, know
their meaning/s and be able to use them in sentences;
* Some list words are pronounced the same as another word, but have different
spelling and meaning (eg *council / counsel); your child needs to be
aware of these, know their meanings and be able to use them in sentences.