Word of the year 2022 by cambridge dictionary

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CAMBRIDGE, England--( The winning word from Cambridge Dictionary was searched for nearly 75,000 times during the first week of May, when it was an answer in the word game Wordle, to become the dictionary’s highest-spiking word of the year. In 2022, five-letter Wordle answers dominated the top-ranking dictionary searches as Wordle became a global phenomenon. Ninety-five percent of the searches for ‘homer’, an informal American English word for a ‘home run’ in baseball, were from outside of North America, as disgruntled Wordle players turned to the Cambridge Dictionary to learn what it meant. Cambridge Dictionary, with its commitment to providing trusted guidance on the use of both British and American English words, was ideally positioned to settle debates. The Wordle effect In a typical year, spikes in searches of the Cambridge Dictionary are related to current affairs. In 2022, by contrast, the spikes for five-letter Wordle words created a new category of contenders for Word of the Year. The American spelling of ‘humor’ caused the second highest spike in 2022, followed by ‘caulk’ (a word more familiar in American English than in British English), then words that were generally unfamiliar: ‘tacit’, ‘bayou’, ‘trope’, and ‘knoll’. British vs American English After their Wordle winning streaks came to an end, speakers of British English used words like ‘outraged’ and ‘furious’ to complain on social media about the choice of ‘homer’ as the Wordle answer for May 5. Americans, i...