Considering that Merriam-Webster is behind the world’s most iconic dictionary, it makes perfect sense that it would eventually come up with a word game of its own.

Merriam-Webster's past words of the year, previous 10 years 2023: Authentic 2022: Gaslighting 2021: Vaccine 2020: Pandemic 2019: They 2018: Justice 2017: Feminism 2016: Surreal 2015: -ism 2014 ...

Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based on data, tracking a rise in search and usage. Last year's pick was “authentic.” ...

Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based on data, tracking a rise in search and usage.

The Brief Merriam-Webster’s 2024 Word of the Year is polarization. Merriam-Webster chooses its word of the year based on data, and tracked a rise in search and usage of the word. Other words or ...

Merriam-Webster officials choose their word of the year based on data, though they filter out evergreen searches and searches that are likely linked with games like Wordle, Sokolowski tells the AP.