“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

Despite not even being a year old, the term vibe coding has been named word of the year by Collins English Dictionary, beating other contenders such as ‘bio hacking’ and ‘glaze’. The term was coined ...

Gail Flanagan received funding from the Research Ireland (formally the Irish Research Council) in 2021-2023 for PhD research unrelated to the current article. For us linguists, the flurry of “word of ...

Overall, terms that describe humans’ relationship with technology feature prominently on this year’s list. Although obviously two words, “vibe coding” was chosen by the UK-published dictionary at a ...

“Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using AI, has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2025. The lexicographers at Collins ...