US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has acquired a hit Wordle-style game. The original Wordle, created by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, challenges players to find a five-letter word in ...

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This is not the only part of the definition that has changed in the online edition of Merriam-Webster. Notice the primary ... identity” in defining the word “female,” it is most likely ...

Rizz: Slang for “romantic appeal or charm". Merriam-Webster added the word to its online dictionary in September. Kibbutz: There was a massive spike in lookups for “a communal farm or ...

Need a little help understanding the Gen Alpha kids? You’re not alone, according to a new ranking of the most Googled slang ...

Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already ...

What is a new English word you learned in 2023? Last year, the American publisher Merriam-Webster introduced 690 new words to its dictionary, ranging from the fictional slang term “padawan” to ...

The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its website ...

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“Gaslighting”, mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful is Merriam Webster word of the year. According to Merriam Webster lookups for the word increased 1,740% in 2022 over ...

While the print editions take longer for new words to appear, the online versions of dictionaries like Merriam-Webster and Oxford ... get caught up in a few of my games. None of those games ...