Oxford Word Of The Year 2025 Finalists. Ap correspondent jennifer king reports on the winning word from oxford university press, to sum up 2024. Every year, we debate candidates for word of the year and choose a winner that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year and to have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance.

Notebandi was the lexicon’s first word of the year in 2018 after it gained currency following the demonetisation of rs 500 and rs 1,000 notes in november 2016. And what does it take to command attention?