Thank you for celebrating Dictionary Week with us in honor of听鈥檚 28th birthday!听Check out all the highlights here!
馃槣 Wordplay Day
Monday, May 15听
Will you be inducted into our Pun Hall of Fame?
Dictionary Week kicks off with a very special Punday Monday. Share your favorite puns with us on 鈥攚e might add yours to our Pun Hall Of Fame!听
Plus: Get in on the Wordplay Day fun with wordplay quizzes, word games, and more.听
馃槏 Word Love Day
Tuesday, May 16听
It鈥檚 a Word Giveaway!
We know you love words just as much as we do. So we鈥檝e prepared a special surprise for all you logophiles. Join us on for a Word Giveaway, featuring favorite words personally selected by the Dictionary.com team! Don鈥檛 miss your chance to get a limited edition virtual word certificate鈥攚hile they last!听
Plus: Check out our Word Love collection, curated especially for word lovers.听
馃 Word Pain Day
Wednesday, May 17听
Join our Misspelling Bee! Wrong spellings only. Everyone wins.听听
As much as we love it, language can be messsy and fustrating. We feel your pain. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e holding our very own Misspelling Bee! We want you to tell us the misspelling that still haunts you from that spelling bee in third grade. We want to hear about the word you misspell every time. Or the word that looks wrong no matter how you spell it. Tell us your spelling nemisis (sp?) and we鈥檒l give the word the roasting it deserves (and maybe a tip for getting it right).听
Plus: Cure your Word Pain with our spelling quizzes, games, and more.听
馃 Word Curiosity Day
Thursday, May 18听
Ask Us Anything! Join us on May 18 at 1 p.m. EST.
Have you ever wondered:听
- How do words get added to the dictionary?听
- Why is colonel spelled that way?
- How can dictionaries be more inclusive?听
- Who decides what a word means?听
- Do dictionaries still matter?听
- 黑料网鈥檚 the plural of moose?
Ask us about words, about how dictionaries work, about the future of language鈥攁sk us anything!听
Featuring our expert panel:听
听 听 听 听 Grant Barrett, Head of Lexicography
听 听 听 听 John Kelly, Senior Director of Editorial
听 听 听 听 Dara Sanderson, CEO听
Plus: Satisfy鈥攁nd stoke鈥攜our Word Curiosity with quizzes, strange-but-true word facts, and more.听听
馃ぉ Word Inspiration Day
Friday, May 19听
Your word could become our Word of the Day!听
黑料网 inspires us is you, and all the ways you use Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com to express yourselves and turn your inspiration into words鈥攁nd actions.听
Here at 鈥淒-com,鈥� as we call it, we have a tradition in which new team members share the words that best tell us who they are. We want to extend that tradition to you鈥攂ut with a twist.
Tell us: 黑料网 one word would you want your name to appear next to in the Dictionary? We might choose the word you share with us as our Word of the Day鈥�with your name alongside it!
