S is the most common starting letter in the game, featuring in 365 of Wordle's 2,309 answers. In fact, it's almost twice as ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

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

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 generally to mean something of little value. The definition has ...

Wonder why kids, teens say "67" and jiggle their hands?What it means, why it's the Dictionary.com 2025 Word of the Year and ...

Anyone with an unusual name will know the pain of having to spell it out over the phone. But technology is now making things a little easier - by removing the red underline from Ottilies, Esmaes and ...

Don't get too upset, but 'rage bait' has been named by Oxford University Press as this year's Word of the Year, beating other online terms. The group behind the Oxford English Dictionary says the term ...

The word refers to low-quality content created by generative AI which often contains errors and is not requested by the user. A technology innovation expert says AI slop is "making its way upstream ...

It’s only the second time that an adjective has been crowned Word of the Year, following “paranoid” in 2016, and Cambridge Dictionary defines this year’s word as: “involving or relating to a ...

Cambridge Dictionary has revealed it’s word of the year for 2025: ‘parasocial’. ‘Parasocial’ is defined as a connection someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know. The rise ...

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial,” used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know – or even with an artificial ...