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Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com are excited, elated, ecstatic—over the moon to be joining the IXL Learning family! Yes, there’s a plethora of words to capture the coming together of two leaders in literacy and language learning. For more than three decades, IXL Learning has been passionate about improving learning for all, applying technology in thoughtful and innovative ways to unlock learners' innate curiosity, creativity, and desire for knowledge. In joining together, both companies aspire to connect learners with the educational tools they need, empower self-expression, and connect the world with the joy, power, and love of language.  In the words of IXL CEO Paul Mishkin, we can’t wait to make “significant strides together to make education more engaging and accessible” for millions of learners.  Here’s to a bright, brilliant, dazzling future ahead for both Dictionary.com and IXL—and for all the word lovers around the world! https://lnkd.in/gCrAE3C7

After all the smiles, a champion has been crowned in the Dictionary.com #BiggestSmileWins bracket. According to you, the voters, the word that puts the biggest smile on your face is… discombobulate! Read the not-at-all-discombobulating tourney recap.

It’s bracket season, and we’ve assembled a field of 32 of the silliest-sounding, most fun-to-say words. Now it’s up to YOU to decide which single word will be crowned as the most smile-inducing of all. Which #BiggestSmileWins word puts the biggest smile on your face? Vote here:

It’s 2024, and the pace of language change is as rapid as it has ever been. Our lexicographers are updating the dictionary more frequently than ever, doing the human-scale work of documenting words across the vast spectrum of the always-evolving English language. And wow, the variety is real: greedflation, fire tornado, girl dinner, climate breakdown, skiplagging, bed rotting, Barbiecore, range anxiety, keto flu, sound bath, slow fashion, shacket, stellar nursery, superfog, and many more. Find out which words have been added to Dictionary.com.

This year, one of the top lookups at Dictionary.com was the word "vibe," the current go-to term—along with the plural "vibes"—for talking about the overall feel of a situation or person. Which got us thinking: is there a vibe that perfectly expresses 2023? And so, for the first time, we’ve chosen a #VibeOfTheYear. (In addition to our traditional Word of the Year.) Our choice is inspired by the year’s most high-profile, record-setting, impossible-to-ignore cultural phenomenon. 🫶 But it’s about more than just Taylor. The Dictionary.com #VibeOfTheYear is "eras."

When we look back on 2023, we’ll remember it as the year that AI started to change how we work, learn, create, interact with (mis)information, and think about ourselves. To determine the 2023 #WordOfTheYear we gave ourselves a prompt: Using lexicography and data science, choose a single word that best represents, at this moment, AI’s many profound ramifications for the future of language and life. Like the output of many prompts, the result may not be what you were expecting. The Dictionary.com Word of the Year is "hallucinate."

Our very own VP of Revenue, Simon Curtis, discusses Dictionary.com’s pivot to a video-first content strategy with Ad Age, and the massive impact it has had on our business in 2023: https://lnkd.in/grmA2YsS

After we received over 3,300 eerie entries in Dictionary.com's #HauntingHooks: Haunted House edition writing contest, the master of macabre himself, R.L. Stine, has chosen a winner! Congratulations to the bone-chilling, and brilliant, Betsy Dusenske!

Prepare to haunt and be haunted. It’s time for Dictionary.com’s spooky writing contest, #HauntingHooks: Haunted House Edition! We’re challenging you to write an original opening to a haunted house story using 50 words or less. The winning entry will be chosen by none other than guest judge R.L. Stine and announced on Halloween! You could win a signed copy of R.L. Stine’s newest book and a $100 gift card! Enter now: https://lnkd.in/gbDqkCnH