Every year Dictionary.com releases some metrics as to the most popular search, the biggest gainers, and biggest loser.  Business Week wrote a very good article with some interesting insight from last letters, but I wanted to put some of my own thoughts down.

Top Searched Words of 2009

1. Affect
2. Ubiquitous
3. Irony
4. Socialism
5. Effect
6. Melancholy
7. Love – You can tell the mood when melancholy is more searched than love… :/
8. Integrity
9. Nostalgic
10. Pedantic

Top Gainers of 2009

1. Esurient – Esurient is such an esurient word for wanting to be a top gainer.
2. Impeded
3. Shuddering
4. Fugacious – I bet this won’t be here long…
5. Suffering
6. Negative
7. Namaste
   
8. Adjuvant – Dictionary.com was very adjuvant in defining adjuvant.
9. Callipygian
10. Twitter

Top Decliners of 2009

1. Bush – I’m not going to touch this with a 10 foot pole.
2. Maverick – *pew pew*
3. Solace
4. Liberal
5. Obsequious – As you wish
6. Rhetoric
7. Superfluous
8. Condescending – Well, duh!
9. Cynical – Bought its way onto the list.
10. Ostentatious
    

Top Misspelled Words of 2009

1. Perseverance – Keep trying, you’ll get it right
2. Convenient – Apparently irony (see above) strikes here.
3. Embarrassed – You should be if you can’t spell this.
4. Prerogative – I’ll spell it however I want.
5. Pretentious – If you can’t spell it, you’re not.
6. Appalled – I’m shocked you can’t spell it!
7. Genius – …
8. Definitely – I have definitely misspelled definitely.
9. Inadvertently – I swear, it wasn’t on purpose.
10. Separate – All here on one list.

What are your thoughts on these lists?

-Nick