Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with ...

We saw it on our phones. We ate it in our bowls. This year, “slop” was everywhere. It was so ubiquitous that it’s been named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.