Dictionary.com picks ‘nonsensical’ ‘67’ as word of year

There are still two months to go in 2025 but Dictionary.com’s has unveiled its Word of the Year — and people are losing their minds over the choice.

67.

Yes, you read that right (but in case this is all new to you, it’s said as two separate numbers — six, seven — and not sixty-seven).

If you don’t have or know a sixth-, seventh- or eighth-grader, you may be unfamiliar with the slang term which has many teachers screaming inwardly (and maybe a little outwardly) at its usage.

Dictionary.com describes the phrase as an example of “brainrot slang” with the intention of being “nonsensical and playfully absurd.”

It was also described as “impossible to define,” which Dictionary.com says makes it 67’s “most defining feature.”

And while you likely share many other people’s reaction — the “Tha