Dictionary Week kicks off with Wordplay Day, a celebration of all things punny, playful, and linguistically laugh-inducing. We’ve got a full slate of activities, events, and resources to help you dive into the Wordplay Day festivities. 🏆 Will You Be Inducted Into Our Pun Hall of Fame? We’re kicking off Dictionary Week with a very special Punday Monday. Share your favorite puns with us on …
Dictionary Week celebrations continue with Word Love Day and a swoon-worthy smorgasbord of happenings, activities, and resources for language enthusiasts of every level. Calling all lexeme lovers, word nerds, and dictionary devotees! If you’re a bona fide language buff, this is the day for you! 🎁 We’re Giving Away Words We know you love words just as much as we do, so we’ve prepared a …
Dictionary Week continues with Word Pain Day, an occasion to recognize that, despite all its beauty and wonder, navigating the English language can be filled with angst and uncertainty. It’s a day for anyone who’s ever been done wrong by the pitfalls of grammar, spelling, and pronunciation (which, let’s be honest, is all of us). Never fear—we’ve got a whole lineup of activities, events, and …
Dictionary Week continues with Word Curiosity Day, an exploration of all the questions and wonder that words awaken in us. We’re here to answer all your burning questions about words, the dictionary, and the ever-evolving linguistic landscape. Feed and fuel your Word Curiosity with our expert panel, quizzes, and more! 🙋 Ask Us Anything! Now’s your chance to pose your most burning word questions directly …
Dictionary Week culminated with Word Inspiration Day. What inspires us is you—and all the ways you use Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com to express yourselves. Here at “D-com,” as we call it, we have a tradition in which new team members share the words that best tell us who they are. We extended that tradition to you—but with a twist. We asked you to tell us: What one word would you want …
The English language is famously full of confusing and often contradictory spelling conventions. You know it’s bad when misspell itself is one of the most common misspellings! To identify the words that consistently give people trouble, we analyzed Dictionary.com search data to compile this list of the most commonly misspelled words. For each word, we prepared tips to help you remember how to spell it …
We tried to think of a pun about dictionaries for this introduction, but thinking so hard gave us a headache—it’s thesaurus our head has ever been! Welcome to the Dictionary.com Pun Hall of Fame. Home of good puns, bad puns, funny puns, and the most groan-inducing puns in all the land. If you’ve got a pun-believable pun, share it with us, and you, too, might …
by Nick Norlen, Senior Editor Maybe it was inevitable. And perhaps it was obvious. But honestly, it’s hard not to love it. We asked the internet public to vote to determine The GWOAT—The Greatest Word Of All Time. After multiple rounds and nearly 14,000 votes, they chose… love. Allow us, the objective language observers, to be sentimental for a moment. We acknowledged up front that it’s …
Did Disney’s movie Encanto leave you humming—and wondering? Are you curious about what the Spanish word encanto means? Encanto has several meanings, all of which relate to the movie, including a surprising history. First, the noun encanto in Spanish means “charm.” A small town with beautiful historical buildings might be full of charm and could be described as an encanto. This means the unique town and …
So, you’ve already completed the day’s Wordle and won six games of Scrabble against your phone. What’s a bored word lover to do? Allow us to suggest a game show! That’s right—while we’ve all been playing on our phones, TV and radio game shows have quietly become one of the most riveting ways for certified wordies to get their fix. From new Wordle-inspired games to …
Scrabble is a game that tests both your word knowledge and your relationship with the letter J. A rousing game of Scrabble often requires you to dig deep into your bag of tricks (or a thesaurus) to come up with rare and unusual words to maximize that triple word bonus. But sometimes you need just a little bit more help. What if you have a …
