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Dictionary.com announced the 2025 Word of the Year as “67” the popular phrase that has send parents and teachers alike into a spiral.
What started as a meme has now become the Word of the Year for 2025. Yes, the phrase “6 7” — pronounced by kids far and wide as “six SEHV-un” — was crowned this week as Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year.
If you don’t know a school-aged kid, you probably aren’t familiar with “6 7” (“six seven”), the slang word that has captivated Gen Alpha to the extent that teachers have started to ban it from schools.