What happens when you let the public vote on a shortlist of words for word of the year?
"Rizz."
Oxford University Press announced the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year last week, noting, "2023 marked the era of personal--and professional--PR. And what does it take to command attention? A whole lot of charisma, or the shortened form, 'rizz.'
"Pertaining to someone's ability to attract another person through style, charm, or attractiveness, this term is from the middle part of the word 'charisma' ... . Use of the word as recorded in our corpus has increased dramatically in 2023, with a peak in June 2023, when actor Tom Holland was asked in a widely reported interview about his 'rizz,' to which he answered, 'I have no rizz whatsoever, I have limited rizz.'"
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