2025 was the year that trying fell out of favor. Why put in a genuine, earnest effort when you can have AI do just enough for ...

When you have found your word — sometimes known as a nudge word — put it in your Notes app, or write it down and keep it ...

Today's Wordle answer (game #1653) is… ABBOT. On most occasions, ABBOT would be the hardest Wordle of the weekend – it has an ...

Microsoft has updated its English (UK) digital dictionaries to include Welsh names thanks to a year-long campaign.

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

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

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 why Google has a new Easter egg ...

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 ...

The prestigious UK publisher defines “rage bait” as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to ...

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 ...