Two numerals, six seven, are the dictonary.com word of 2025

11 November 2025

67 has been named word of the year by dictionary.com:

If you’re the parent of a school-aged child, you might be feeling a familiar vexation at the sight of these two formerly innocuous numerals. If you’re a member of Gen Alpha, however, maybe you’re smirking at the thought of adults once again struggling to make sense of your notoriously slippery slang. And if it’s a surprise to you that 67 (pronounced “six-seven”) is somehow newsworthy, don’t worry, because we’re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means.

I’m all for it. I use the phrase constantly. I say six, seven, then pause. I resume by adding, eight, nine, ten. That way people think it’s an anger management technique.

Blogging and anger management goes hand-in-hand after all.

I would prefer it if 67 were styled six-seven though, so that it looks like an actual word. But then again I think presenting numerals as a word is part of the point of using the term in the first place.