“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

Last year, Collins Dictionary’s word of 2024 was “Brat”, based on the online phenomenon caused by Charli XCX’s mega-hit album. This year, their pick is similarly Very Online: they’ve chosen “vibe ...

Overall, terms that describe humans’ relationship with technology feature prominently on this year’s list. Although obviously two words, “vibe coding” was chosen by the UK-published dictionary at a ...

"Vibe coding," a word that essentially means using artificial intelligence (AI) to tell a machine what you want instead of coding it yourself, was on Thursday named the Collins Word of the Year 2025.