Dictionary.com is not exactly a controversial website (unless you ask word nerds), but it has managed to generate a mass old men yelling at clouds event. The site announced its Word of the Year for 2025 , and it picked a word that is actually two words (numbers even) that already exist but have been combined to create some sort of new, nonsensical term that captures the nihilistic brainrot of a generation: “ Six-seven ” (siks sev – uh n).
In Dictionary.com’s slight defense, there is almost certainly no “word” that has seen a larger spike in usage than six-seven has. If you have anyone in your life under the age of 18, you’ve almost certainly heard the term repeated an inexplicable number of times. Dictionary.com claims that six-seven has appeared in digital media six times more f

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