"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.

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

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 ...

Springfield-based dictionary company Merriam-Webster has announced that “Slop” is the Word of the Year for 2025.

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

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define ...

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything,” the ...

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

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