The 2025 Dictory.com Word of the Year is "67" or "6-7" or "six seven." What does this term mean? Well, there are two possible explanations. (Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images) Getty Images

Dictionary.com may have had 6-7 candidates for its 2025 Word of the Year, but in the end, there was really only one clear choice. In fact, by September, “67”—also spelled “6-7” or “six-seven”—became so clearly defined as the winner that Dictionary.com was willing to call the race early this year. That’s one month early as in October 29, 2025, compared to the November 25, 2024, announcement for the 2024 Word of the Year “demure.” And there may be two health-related reasons why 67 has gone so viral this year.

“67 still hasn’t even peaked in its usage yet,” Steve Johnson, director of lexic

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