Oxford University’s 2023 Word Of The Year Is “Rizz”

December 4, 2023 News, Pop Culture

The Oxford University Press reports:

After over 30,000 language lovers around the world got involved to help refine our shortlist of eight words, we are pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year 2023 is rizz.

Through head-to-head competitions over a four-day voting period, the public narrowed down our shortlist of worthy contenders to four finalists: rizz, Swiftie, prompt, and situationship.

These words were then put to our language experts, who considered our corpus data, the vote counts, and the public commentary around the words to choose the definitive word of the year for 2023.

Rizz is a colloquial noun, defined as ‘style, charm, or attractiveness; the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner.’ Etymologically, the term is believed to be a shortened form of the word ‘charisma’, taken from the middle part of the word, which is an unusual word formation pattern.

Read the full article. Rizz is new to me. 23 skidoo! Last week Merriam-Webster named “authentic” as its word of the year for 2023.



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