Dec 14, 2025 · Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by …

These are Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year for 2022. Topping the list is 'gaslighting,' followed by words that inspired a large number of lookups from politics, pop culture, and …

Jan 2, 2024 · These are Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year for 2021. Topping the list is 'vaccine,' followed by words from the 1/6 insurrection, a new MLB team name in Cleveland, …

What follows is a summary of the Words of the Year for the 2010s, with each year's top word and one runner-up that our editors thought was especially significant.

Dec 14, 2025 · Find out why Merriam-Webster named 'polarization' as the Word of the Year for 2024. And learn more about the words that inspired a large number of lookups from AI, …

Find out why Merriam-Webster named 'authentic' as the Word of the Year for 2023. And learn more about the words that inspired a large number of lookups from AI, politics, pop culture, …

Jan 3, 2026 · Learn a new word every day with the Word of the Day from Merriam-Webster, the most trusted authority on American English. Now available as a podcast, daily e-mail, on …

Based upon a statistical analysis of words that are looked up in extremely high numbers in our online dictionary while also showing a significant year-over-year increase in traffic, Merriam …

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Here is Merriam-Webster's 2019 Word of the Year. Topping the list that year was 'They' which saw surging use as a nonbinary pronoun.