Wiktionary:Word of the day

Wiktionary’s Word of the Day features interesting words, terms, and phrases on the Main Page. For Words of the Day in languages other than English, see Foreign Word of the Day. At present, is in charge of the process, setting dates for the words.

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Future Words of the Day
You can nominate a term as a future Word of the Day at:


 * Word of the day/Nominations.

You can also check out the terms that are already in the queue to be a Word of the Day in July and :


 * Word of the day/Archive/2024/July.
 * Word of the day/Archive//.

Alphabetical index

 * See Category:Word of the day archive.

Recycled pages

 * Recycled pages – Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

Frequently asked questions
See Word of the day/FAQ.

History
Although there were several early attempts to begin a Word of the Day on Wiktionary, the first official WOTD was posted on 10 January 2006.

Considerable opposition to the now wildly popular WOTD was raised, as it was felt that one full year’s supply of terms should be prepared before it appeared on the Main Page. That took over a year to happen.

In 2007, the [//en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=wotd RSS feed] was created, then an alternate feed (no longer operational) was later added. In July and August 2007, the WOTD was added to the Wikimedia Daily Article Mailing List.

Also in early 2007, the entries started being marked with to prevent duplicates, and an alphabetic index (which has since failed RFD) was added.

No voting process currently exists for deciding the terms that get featured as WOTD. The volunteers managing it use a set of criteria to ensure adequate variety for any given month’s batch of WOTDs. For details, please see “Word of the day/Nominations”. Before entries finally make it into the spotlight, they are vetted and tidied up to ensure they are properly formatted and referenced, have suitable quotations, and so on. Only then will they be awesome enough to show to the world!