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

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

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

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

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"Slop" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it ...

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.