Austrian German Youth
#WotY2025 is "six seven" (not sechs sieben, apparently).
h/t
@[email protected]
(and h/t
@[email protected] for the last one in the thread)
www.weekend.at/chronik/juge...Jugendwort des Jahres 2025: Wa...
Jugendwort des Jahres 2025: Was bedeutet 6-7?
Die Gesellschaft für Österreichisches Deutsch hat „Six Seven“ zum Jugendwort des Jahres 2025 gewählt. Aber was bedeutet 6-7 und wo kommt die Zahlenfolge her?
weekend.at
AN’s 2025 Architecture Word of the Year: “glut”
This year has been a lot. In 2025, we’ve seen a heavy helping of more, more, and more, and bigger, bigger, and bigger
The Architect’s Newspaper
2025 Word of the Year: Slop
Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year

2025 Huaʻōlelo o ka Makahiki: Kāhuli | University of Hawaiʻi System News
Kāhuli speaks to change, to alter, to overturn and draws from the opening lines of the Hawaiian creation chant of Kumulipo.
University of Hawaiʻi System News
The climate word of the year
This week, we’re looking at some of the climate words and phrases that defined 2025 — and what that says about where we’re at.
Grist
Ćaciland Protest Camp - Wikipedia

«arancel», palabra del año 2025 de la FundéuRAE
La Fundación del Español Urgente (FundéuRAE), promovida por la Real Academia Española y la Agencia EFE, ha escogido arancel como su palabra del año 2025.
Las negociaciones y las imposiciones comerciales, promovidas por el presidente de Estados Unidos, especialmente las relacionadas con las exportaciones y las importaciones entre países, han sido las protagonistas de la información internacional durante meses, y lo siguen siendo. Este 2025, en el centro de muchas conversaciones se ha situado el sustantivo arancel. Esta voz ha pasado de estar reservada a los especialistas y al ámbito técnico a estar en boca de todos y convertirse en...
FundéuRAE | Fundación del Español UrgenteI had announced here the Swiss German
#WotY2025, but hadn't noticed that the Swiss French, Italian and Romansch WotYs had been decided too, respectively:
génocide, dazi, IA
www.zhaw.ch/en/linguisti...Switzerland’s Word of the Year...
Switzerland’s Word of the Year | ZHAW Applied Linguistics
[Translate to english:] ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik | Das Wort des Jahres steht für wesentliche gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen, die sich in den Diskursen der Schweiz spiegeln.
ZHAW Applied LinguisticsJapanese
#WotY2025, according to Sanseido is
ビジュ biju 'visual'
Looking Good! “Biju” Chosen as...
Looking Good! “Biju” Chosen as One of Japan’s Words of 2025
Dictionary publisher Sanseidō picked biju as its word of the year for 2025. Often used for praising personal appearance, it made a notable appearance in one of the year’s J-pop hits.
nippon.comA bunch of Chinese
#WotY2025
Character of the Year: 韧 rèn ‘resilience’
Phrase of the Year: 深度求索 shēndù qiúsuǒ ‘DeepSeek’
Global Character of the Year: 税 shuì ‘tax’
Global Phrase of the Year: 地缘政治 dìyuán zhèngzhì ‘global politics’
(In Chinese:)
www.chinanews.com.cn/cul/2025/12-...chinanews.com.cn/cul/2025/12-19...韧、税分别当选“汉语盘点2025”国内、国际字-中新网

My word of the year
As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than your fair share, even when it harms others.
Once you understand pleonexia, you start to see it everywhere: in big tech, in bond markets, in tax...
Funding the FutureLatin
#WotY2025 or Vox anni MMXXV (by Friends of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae) is
rhonchissator 'snorer'
h/t
@[email protected]
parerga.hypotheses.org/4320LATIN WORD OF THE YEAR 2025 – ...
LATIN WORD OF THE YEAR 2025 – VOX ANNI MMXXV
After a record-breaking vote the Latin Word of the Year 2025 has been chosen: rhonchissator! Rhonchissator (pronounced “wrong-kiss-SAH-tor”), a Latin agent noun meaning “snorer”, has soundly resonated with more than a third of all participants (521 of the total of 1374 votes registered). The word’s popularity is likely a testament not only to its rhonchous […]
ParergaThe Hawai'i Word of the Year (i.e. the English one—we've already had a Hawaiian
#WotY2025) is
analogue
www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/12...
And if you're wondering about the spelling, here's my old post on -og and -ogue in AmE:
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2013/03/og-a...‘Analogue’ is 2025 Hawaiʻi Wor...
‘Analogue’ is 2025 Hawaiʻi Word of the Year | University of Hawaiʻi System News
UH Mānoa Department of English faculty members, and students making up the English Majors Association leadership, came up with the word.
University of Hawaiʻi System News“Türk Dil Kurumu 2025 Yılının Kelimesi/Kavramı”nı Açıkladı: “Dijital Vicdan” – Türk Dil Kurumu
Sorry, that should be Türkiye, and here's an Englihsh article about the word:
www.dailysabah.com/life/turkiye...Türkiye chooses 'digital consc...
Türkiye chooses 'digital conscience' as word of the year 2025
“Digital conscience” was selected as the 'Word/Concept of the Year 2025' by the Turkish Language Association (TDK) through public voting, Culture and...
Daily SabahNext on my
#WotY2025 list is my own. The Separated by a Common Language 2025 UK-to-US Word of the year is:
FIDDLY!
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2025/12/uk-t...UK-to-US Word of the Year 2025...
UK-to-US Word of the Year 2025: fiddly

US-to-UK Word of the Year 2025: zee

And the 2025 winner for the Herald/Review 'Word of the Year' is...
SIERRA VISTA — Each December, the good and humble people at the Oxford Dictionary give us their ‘Word of the Year.’ This word is usually a word that would have
Herald/Review MediaThe Made for Mums website seems to have made up their own
#WotY2025. Though I can find hits for 'tech exhausted', this portmanteau version feels like a
#portmantNO
techxhausted
www.madeformums.com/news/baby-ne...Techxhausted is 2025’s parenti...
Techxhausted is 2025’s parenting word of the year—and every screen-weary parent gets it
From smart baby gear to never-ending pings, ‘techxhausted’ nails how parenting feels in 2025—drained, distracted, and desperate for a digital detox.
MadeForMumsThis columnist's
#WotY2025 is 'tendernism'. But the headline says 'tenderism'.
www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...forbes.com/sites/dougmelv...
‘Tenderism’ Took Over TikTok In 2025 — Here’s What Comes Next In 2026
In 2025, there was simply no escaping “tendernism.” Walter French won over the internet by describing his BBQ. Now I want to give this my vote for word of the year.
ForbesWords of the Year from 2025 keep coming in.
Slovenian's is zimski bonus ’winter bonus’
sibiz.eu/government-a...
Slovenia also has a sign language
#WotY2025, which means 'geodiversity'
Government Approves Winter Bon...
Government Approves Winter Bonus Law: Key Details for Employers - Sibiz d.o.o.
Slovenia, November 3, 2025, The Slovenian government has officially approved the proposal for a new mandatory employee benefit – the “winter bonus” (zimski regres). The measure introduces an additional payment for employees that mirrors the structure of the already established annual leave allowance. As discussed in our previous article Mandatory Christmas bonus in Slovenia – […]
Sibiz d.o.o.Ukrainian
#WotY2025 is
переговори perehovory ‘negotiations’
myslovo.com?page_id=4634 » Слово року 2025The Eagle has landed.
The American Dialect Soceity
#WotY2025 is 'slop'.
Two dictionaries, at least a couple of magazines, and now the ADS: it really is the Word of the Year.
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop...