Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com both just announced their pick for Word of the Year for 2020. They both picked the same word. It’s also the most obvious word. The pick from both places is “pandemic.”
Some of Merriam-Webster’s runners-up are coronavirus, defund, mamba, (which was Kobe Bryant’s nickname) kraken, asymptomatic and malarkey.
Some of Dictionary.com’s runners-up are quarantine, social distancing, conspiracy theory, doomscrolling, superspreader and Karen.
