Since 2016, Babbel commissions the U.S. Captioning Company and the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters to identify the most mispronounced words in the US and UK.
Year
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Word of the Year
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Shortlist
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[5]
- ad blocker
- Brexit
- Dark Web
- lumbersexual
- on fleek
- refugee
- sharing economy
- they
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post-truth
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[6]
- adulting
- alt-right
- Brexiteer
- chatbot
- coulrophobia
- glass cliff
- hygge
- Latinx
- woke
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2017
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youthquake
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[7]
- Antifa
- broflake
- gorpcore
- kompromat
- Milkshake Duck
- newsjacking
- unicorn
- white fragility
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2018
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toxic
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[8]
- big dick energy
- cakeism
- gammon
- gaslighting
- incel
- orbiting
- overtourism
- techlash
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2019
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climate emergency
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- climate action
- climate crisis
- climate denial
- eco-anxiety
- ecocide
- extinction
- flight shame
- global heating
- net-zero
- plant-based
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2021
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vax
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2022
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goblin mode
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2023
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rizz
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- prompt
- situationship
- Swiftie
- beige flag
- de-influencing
- heat dome
- parasocial
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