The top word for 2025 means nothing

The top word for 2025 means nothing

If you have middle-schooler children or grandchildren, you may have heard this word: Six Seven (67). And you might have asked what it means.

Whatever answer you got was destined to be unsatisfying because for Gen Alpha and Gen Z it means nothing. It is often used with a hand motion, commonly associated with the idea of weighing options: Hands out, palms up moving up and down.

Not having a meaning didn't stop Dictionary.com from making 67 the word of the year for 2025 mainly because searches for 67 dramatically rose during the summer of 2025. That's probably because adults wondered what their kids were up to.

What they are up to is laughing about your confusion.

Next word up: 41 (pronounced forty-one, and not four one, don't be so 67). 41 also means nothing.