"Rizz" has been named as Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year, beating out (21） including situationship, prompt, de-influencing and (yes) Swiftie. "Rizz" was first recorded in 2022, according to Oxford. But it (22） in June, after actor Tom Holland, in an interview with BuzzFeed, said: "I have no rizz whatsoever. I have limited rizz." That (23） a crush of memes, as overall usage (24） by a factor of about 15 over the previous year, according to Oxford's data. Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages, the dictionary division, said this year's choice reflects the way social media (25） the pace of language change exponentially. Plus, he said, the word simply has... rizz. "One of the reasons it's moving from being a (26） social media phrase ( (27） the mainstream is, it's just fun to say." he said. Oxford's Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from its (28） ） updated corpus of more than 22 billion words, gathered from news sources across the English-speaking world. The selection, according to Oxford, is meant "to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations" of the (29） year. This year, the public was invited to cut the (30） list in half by weighing in on four head-to-head thematic pairings. (Some 30,000 people voted, Oxford said.) Oxford's team then made the final selection.