@FormerlyKnownAs said:

“Each year, various organizations try to sum up the previous 12 months with a single word or character.” (Babbel.com)

2021’s "Word"(s): of the year:

Merriam-Webster – Vaccine. --Runners-up in order:

1. Insurrection
2. Perseverance
3. Woke
4. Nomad
5. Infrastructure
6. Cicada
7. Murraya
8. Crisgender
9. Guardian
10. Meta

Oxford Dictionaries — Vax

Dictionary.com — Allyship

Cambridge Dictionary — Perseverance

Collins Dictionary — NFT

The German Language Society— Wellenbrecher (“Breakwater”)

Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation — 金 kin (“gold”)

I know "Omicron" was a late-bloomer last year; but, anyone surprised that it did not “overtake” any of these lists the same it did the world’s spotlight?

Shouldn't that be cisgender? No r?

@bratface said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

“Each year, various organizations try to sum up the previous 12 months with a single word or character.” (Babbel.com)

2021’s "Word"(s): of the year:

Merriam-Webster – Vaccine. --Runners-up in order:

1. Insurrection
2. Perseverance
3. Woke
4. Nomad
5. Infrastructure
6. Cicada
7. Murraya
8. Crisgender
9. Guardian
10. Meta

Oxford Dictionaries — Vax

Dictionary.com — Allyship

Cambridge Dictionary — Perseverance

Collins Dictionary — NFT

The German Language Society— Wellenbrecher (“Breakwater”)

Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation — 金 kin (“gold”)

I know "Omicron" was a late-bloomer last year; but, anyone surprised that it did not “overtake” any of these lists the same it did the world’s spotlight?

Shouldn't that be cisgender? No r?

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

@bratface said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

“Each year, various organizations try to sum up the previous 12 months with a single word or character.” (Babbel.com)

2021’s "Word"(s): of the year:

Merriam-Webster – Vaccine. --Runners-up in order:

1. Insurrection
2. Perseverance
3. Woke
4. Nomad
5. Infrastructure
6. Cicada
7. Murraya
8. Crisgender
9. Guardian
10. Meta

Oxford Dictionaries — Vax

Dictionary.com — Allyship

Cambridge Dictionary — Perseverance

Collins Dictionary — NFT

The German Language Society— Wellenbrecher (“Breakwater”)

Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation — 金 kin (“gold”)

I know "Omicron" was a late-bloomer last year; but, anyone surprised that it did not “overtake” any of these lists the same it did the world’s spotlight?

Shouldn't that be cisgender? No r?

You know you can edit your original post to remove the r?

Crisgender could become a new word.

@wonder2wonder said:

Crisgender could become a new word.

🙄

@bratface said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

@bratface said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

“Each year, various organizations try to sum up the previous 12 months with a single word or character.” (Babbel.com)

2021’s "Word"(s): of the year:

Merriam-Webster – Vaccine. --Runners-up in order:

1. Insurrection
2. Perseverance
3. Woke
4. Nomad
5. Infrastructure
6. Cicada
7. Murraya
8. Crisgender
9. Guardian
10. Meta

Oxford Dictionaries — Vax

Dictionary.com — Allyship

Cambridge Dictionary — Perseverance

Collins Dictionary — NFT

The German Language Society— Wellenbrecher (“Breakwater”)

Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation — 金 kin (“gold”)

I know "Omicron" was a late-bloomer last year; but, anyone surprised that it did not “overtake” any of these lists the same it did the world’s spotlight?

Shouldn't that be cisgender? No r?

You know you can edit your original post to remove the r?

@bratface said:

@wonder2wonder said:

Crisgender could become a new word.

🙄

Possible definition(s)?

@mechajutaro said:

WAP doesn't get any recognition? Life gets less rosy with each passing day

I appreciate the sentiment; but, that’s from “2020” not “2021”.

@mechajutaro said:

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

@mechajutaro said:

WAP doesn't get any recognition? Life gets less rosy with each passing day

I appreciate the sentiment; but, that’s from “2020” not “2021”.

Everything's been running together under quarantine

Considering the times, not surprising how many are related. Anyway, here is a brief description of the different entities' word-picking-methods. I think Method 2 would be your word's best bet, followed closely by Method 5, and maybe Method 8 ...IF it could get pass that "shortlist" hurdle.

(1) Word’s search volume increased the most in a year.

(2) Creates a report collecting evidence for a word’s importance in a year.

(3) Factors include newsworthiness, lookups in the dictionary, and its connections to other work the entity is doing.

(4) A word that had a large uptick in searches over the past year.

(5) Rise in the use of the term throughout the year.

(6) They look at frequency, popularity and significance of the word over the past year.

(7) Have a committee that discusses the words and picks the one they think best represents the year.

(8) Creates a shortlist of words, and then lets people vote for the one they think suits the year best.

NOTE: The info is from babbel .com; but, I “massaged” it a bit for the sake of brevity.