WOTY
WOTY is the initialism of word of the year.
Noun capitalized: WotY
WotY (plural WotYs)
- Initialism of word of the year.
- Nothing in your original post (pasted below) says that the WotY is the "English" Word of the Year. To the contrary, it suggests that it is what the American Dialect Society considers WotY.2005 January 16, Martin Ambuhl, “flip-flopper at the ADS”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025
- Please nominate your favo(u)rites and give arguments for their WotY-worthiness in the comments to this post. It might be helpful to see my reasoning on why past words were WotY worthy and other nominations weren't.2012 November 18, Lynne Murphy, “Nominate WotYs & Untranslatables Month II”, in separated by a common language, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2012
Forms of WOTY
| plural | WOTYs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | WotY |
| plural | WotYs |
| alternative form | WOTY |
Questions about WOTY
- What is WOTY the initialism of?
- WOTY is the initialism of word of the year.
- What part of speech is WOTY?
- WOTY is a noun.
- What is the plural of WOTY?
- The plural of WOTY is WOTYs.
Words near WOTY in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: WOTY (page history and authors); WotY (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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