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

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

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

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

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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