The Merriam-Webster Word-O-Meter

• Increase in lookups for held in contempt from March: 670%
• Lookups for mandate in April 2022 (when a federal judge reversed the CDC mask mandate) compared with April 2020 (when CDC mask mandate began): -5.11%
• Most looked-up Latin phrase: urbi et orbi
• Second most looked-up Latin phrase: sic semper tyrannis
• Most looked-up French phrase: avant la lettre
• Most looked-up word from the French election: Jupiterian
• Most looked up back-formation: gruntle
• Most looked-up astronomy term: paschal full moon
• Top Easter lookups, in order: Maundy Thursday, Tenebrae, Easter, resurrection
• Top Passover lookups, in order: shawl, rabboni, rabbi, seder, Passover
• Top Ramadan lookups, in order: iftar, Ramadan, inshallah

Word-O-Meter Archive:
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022