Nearly 75,000 searches were made for the American term when it was the answer to the online five-letter puzzle on May 5
A Wordle that stumped British players has been crowned Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year.
Nearly 75,000 searches on the dictionary’s website were made for “homer” in the week the baseball term appeared as an answer to the online five-letter word puzzle on May 5.
Editors said Wordle answers dominated the searches that spiked on the dictionary’s website.
The informal US term for a home run came top with 95 per cent of searches for it from outside North America.