Word Of The Year 2025 Oxford University Press. Initially gaining traction on social media platform—particularly on tiktok among. After over 37,000 votes, worldwide public discussion, and analysis of language data, the university has named ‘brain rot’ as their word of the year for 2024.

Since 2004, the oxford word of the year has highlighted the language that has shaped our conversations and reflected the cultural shifts, patterns, and sentiments of a particular year. “brain rot” is the oxford dictionaries’ word of the year.