Overview

• Over 6,000 entries joined the online lexicon, covering social-media slang, pandemic-driven phrases and environment-related vocabulary.
• Skibidi is defined as a multivalent gibberish word meaning ‘cool,’ ‘bad’ or nothing at all, delulu denotes self-selected delusional beliefs and tradwife describes a social-media-backed traditional wife trend.
• Additional neologisms include remote-work jargon like mouse jiggler, climate terms such as forever chemical and portmanteaus like broligarchy.
• Lexicographers tracked usage across the two-billion-word Cambridge English Corpus and only added words deemed to have staying power based on frequency and context.
• Celebrity mentions—from Kim Kardashian’s skibidi necklace to Anthony Albanese’s parliamentary ‘delulu with no solulu’ quip—boosted mainstream visibility but did not solely determine inclusion.