Word of the Year

Today's five-letter answer is a noun, with three vowels, and no repeating letters.

"In the past few decades, the term has evolved to take on a more nuanced and specific meaning," the website's John Kelly said about the word "allyship."

Vaccine was chosen in part because of a 608 percent increase in the number of times the word was searched in 2020 and a 1,048 percent increase this year.

NFT is an abbreviation for non-fungible token. The term vax can be used as a noun or verb and is the root for other common phrases such as "getting vaxed."

Politicians spreading disinformation or misinformation is nothing new, but what is new is the spread of misinformation on social media platforms that is entirely fictitious and actual fake news.

"Fidget spinner" and "gender-fluid" also get a nod.

As long as we have "covfefe," we'll be all right. Maybe.

Other contenders included "alt-right," "glass cliff" and "woke."

"Dude food" and "JOMO" have also seen a rise in popularity in 2016.

TBH, piecaken won't make anyone less hangry.

It's a suffix.

It's an emoji.