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

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

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

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

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

Over the years Microsoft Word has played a key role in our professional lives. It is pretty much our go-to application every time we want to prepare an article or a proposal of any sort. Similarly, it ...

We have some new words to describe our hellscape. Dictionary.com added more than 300 new words Tuesday and more than 1,200 new and revised definitions for existing words. The update comes as the ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

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