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Maxxing named Dictionary.coms 2026 Word of the Year
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Because We All Weren’t Tired Enough — Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year Is Maxxing
Dictionary.com announces the top word of 2026
Other contenders for Dictionary.com’s Word of 2026: “Affordability” (a hot topic these days, the wordsmiths point out); “data center” (AI panic, anyone?), “odyssey” (as in the Matt Damon movie) and “unc” — another internet slang term, short for “uncool” or “out of touch.
It gained popularity — and its interpretive spelling — in incel and manosphere circles beginning in the 2010s, where young men often discuss best practices to “looksmaxx,” or make themselves more attractive and increase their number of sexual partners.
According to Dictionary.com, “maxxing” can be used in ways that are “earnest, aspirational, or mocking,” and reflects both the impulse to keep improving and the habit of joking about that obsession.
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