Cambridge Dictionary has announced 'Homer' as  its 2022 word of the year 2022. The word saw a huge spike in searches on the Cambridge Dictionary website in 2022, with over 65,000 searches occurring in a single day.

• The editors cited that the unfamiliar word left many confused and feeling frustrated.
• Several Wordle players after losing the day’s game took to the Cambridge Dictionary to understand its meaning. For the uninitiated, homer is the informal term for a home run in baseball.
• Wordle, a simple word-guessing game, was invented by Josh Wardle, a software engineer from Brooklyn, for his Indian partner, Palak Shah.
• It requires a player to guess a five-letter word in six tries. It became a sensation among puzzle lovers all across the world. It was later acquired by the New York Times.