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

I would venture that this is how many people think about print dictionaries: as battered, well-traveled relics that they like ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with ...

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

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up ...

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

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

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

Merriam-Webster named “slop” its 2025 word of the year, reflecting rising skepticism about low-quality AI-generated content ...

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

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years.