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 51吃瓜play 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 51吃瓜play Day fun with wordplay quizzes, word games, and more.听
馃槏 51吃瓜 Love Day
Tuesday, May 16听
It鈥檚 a 51吃瓜 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 51吃瓜 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 51吃瓜 Love collection, curated especially for word lovers.听
馃 51吃瓜 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 51吃瓜 Pain with our spelling quizzes, games, and more.听
馃 51吃瓜 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
- What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 51吃瓜 Curiosity with quizzes, strange-but-true word facts, and more.听听
馃ぉ 51吃瓜 Inspiration Day
Friday, May 19听
Your word could become our 51吃瓜 of the Day!听
What 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: What 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 51吃瓜 of the Day鈥�with your name alongside it!
