You can be certain that Etiwanda High students know the meaning of the word “three-peat.”

For the third year in a row, the Rancho Cucamonga high school won Vocabulary.com’s Vocabulary Bowl. Etiwanda High’s students mastered 449,965 words this year, beating their numbers from both 2017 and 2018.

“We are very excited,” Principal Don Jaramillo said in a Vocabulary.com news release. “Vocabulary has always been an important part of the Etiwanda culture.”

Nationally, 1.3 million students at 39,702 schools participated from all 50 states and nine Canadian provinces, mastering more than 35 million words.

To become a master of words, students log in to Vocabulary.com and answer multiple questions about each word, rather than just memorizing the word. Etiwanda also won a monthly Vocabulary.com title five times this year.

Etiwanda High was presented with a trophy and the top 100 students were awarded medals in a ceremony on May 14. Rancho Cucamonga City Councilman Sam Spagnolo also presented the student body with a letter of commendation from the city.

Los Alamitos’ McAuliffe Middle School, Indio High School, Rialto High School and Rancho Cucamonga High School came in fourth, eighth, 16th and 20th among all schools in the bowl, respectively.