Word Spy - Top 100
The list below shows the top 100 Word Spy words (as measured by page views) from the past seven days (May 14, 2013 to May 21, 2013).
 Rank   Previous  WordPosted On
1 1 smartphone face May 10, 2013
2 2 austerian April 23, 2013
3 18 microblogging June 7, 2007
4 3 cli-fi May 1, 2013
5 4 Facebook facelift May 3, 2013
6 5 get-off-my-lawn April 30, 2013
7 7 nanofacture April 24, 2013
8 6 glasseslike May 8, 2013
9 8 organ recital April 25, 2013
10 9 feature nail April 26, 2013
11 10 catfishing May 2, 2013
12 12 Google bombing May 21, 2002
13 13 wet signature April 10, 2000
14 11 metrosexual September 4, 2002
15 15 type T personality April 3, 2003
16 14 greengrocers' apostrophe August 7, 2000
17 16 food forest April 22, 2013
18 17 amygdala hijack April 11, 2013
19 20 Stendhal's syndrome April 1, 2003
20 21 T-shaped October 8, 2003
21 19 twintern April 19, 2013
22 22 sapiosexual December 7, 2012
23 23 phishing August 1, 2003
24 24 beanpole family May 23, 2002
25 27 google April 12, 2001
26 28 datasexual March 20, 2013
27 33 sock puppet September 25, 2006
28 38 bookmark March 16, 1997
29 26 tweetup June 11, 2008
30 30 kitchen pass April 15, 2004
31 29 social networking January 12, 2004
32 40 thumb culture January 12, 2001
33 31 torch-and-pitchfork March 17, 2009
34 34 alpha mom January 19, 1999
35 36 gaydar October 11, 1996
36 32 self-tracker February 20, 2009
37 35 liposculpture July 17, 2002
38 41 truck roll April 21, 1999
39 70 electric-can-opener question August 23, 1999
40 39 lifestreaming November 6, 2007
41 58 BANANA February 19, 1999
42 43 age heaping April 9, 2003
43 60 bucket list November 10, 2010
44 42 crackberry May 31, 2004
45 37 bobo October 30, 2001
46 46 mommy porn January 4, 2013
47 76 narb September 27, 2011
48 73 misophonia December 19, 2012
49 62 Cupertino effect April 18, 2013
50 47 crime-as-a-service March 27, 2013
51 44 BAM September 27, 2000
52 53 drink the Kool-Aid October 27, 1998
53 59 Humpty Dumpty language February 25, 1999
54 51 patent troll August 13, 2003
55 45 resistentialism September 30, 2002
56 56 grasstops April 30, 2004
57 63 irritable male syndrome February 4, 2003
58 71 watercooler effect June 10, 2002
59 52 earworm March 12, 2003
60 88 spam January 10, 1999
61 54 undertoad July 21, 1997
62 78 zombie lie April 29, 2011
63 84 misteress November 29, 2012
64 48 flash mob July 14, 2003
65 69 Generation D January 17, 2001
66 74 cold transfer July 19, 1997
67 49 de-extinction March 29, 2013
68 57 bluejacking November 21, 2003
69 64 precautionary principle January 23, 2002
70 93 defensive pessimism June 12, 2002
71 72 soft power July 8, 2002
72 75 filter bubble June 30, 2011
73 65 crowdfunding July 1, 2008
74 55 retrosexual October 6, 2004
75 81 Lake Wobegon effect August 15, 2003
76 61 success theater January 3, 2013
77 83 BYOD February 12, 2013
78 66 camgirl October 23, 2002
79 100 dead cat bounce August 13, 1999
80 89 Pierre Salinger syndrome July 18, 1997
81 79 pi-ku March 14, 2013
82 87 Ctrl-Alt-Delete February 12, 2004
83 80 Anglosphere March 13, 2003
84 77 post-gay June 23, 1998
85 57 spamdexing July 5, 1996
86 63 lucrepath April 23, 2010
87 98 Googleverse January 16, 2006
88 85 retail anthropology February 11, 2002
89 81 nomophobia February 21, 2012
90 50 Affrilachian December 12, 2002
91 86 eat what you kill June 3, 2003
92 95 killboard October 9, 1998
93 91 wildposting April 27, 1999
94 82 cash mob June 26, 2012
95 83 Proteus phenomenon March 22, 2013
96 67 hurried child syndrome November 19, 2002
97 96 information fatigue syndrome October 17, 1996
98 86 CXO July 29, 2002
99 90 iPod oblivion August 13, 2010
100 92 social swearing February 1, 2013