LINK · via NPR · Apr 20, 2026 Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year Is Not a Word Dictionary.com sat down this year, looked at the entire English language, and said you know what, not today, and handed the crown to 67, which is not a word, is pronounced "six seven" and not "sixty-seven," and means absolutely nothing that anyone has been able to pin down with any confidence. It started with a rap song, got picked up by TikTok, attached itself to a very tall basketball player, and then somehow ended up in the mouth of every third-grader in the country, which is how these things go now. By the time Merriam-Webster weighed in with their own pick — "slop," defined as the ocean of low-quality garbage that AI dumps on the internet every twelve seconds — the two choices sitting next to each other started to feel less like a fun annual tradition and more like a note left on the refrigerator by the English language on its way out the door.