Merriam-Webster's dictionary names its 2025 word of the year

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

• Dec 15, 2025

What headline? 'Gaslighting' Merriam-Webster's word of 2022

"Gaslighting" — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster's word of the year.

• Nov 27, 2022

California man pleads guilty after threatening to "shoot up and bomb" Merriam-Webster offices over its gender definitions

Jeremy David Hanson admitted to threatening various organizations, politicians and individuals.

• Sep 16, 2022

'They' Named As Merriam-Webster Dictionary's Word Of The Year

The nonbinary pronoun "they" has been named Merriam-Webster's word of the year.

• Dec 10, 2019

'Hangry' And 'TL:DR' Among More Than 800 New Words Added To Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Next time someone tries to tell you "hangry" isn't a word during a game of scrabble, tell them to check the dictionary.

• Sep 4, 2018

'Culture': Merriam-Webster's 2014 Word Of The Year

A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year: culture.

• Dec 15, 2014