A couple taking a selfie in a restaurant.
A theme of competition and escalation ran through the new word entries. Photograph: Dmitriy Shironosov/Alamy
A theme of competition and escalation ran through the new word entries. Photograph: Dmitriy Shironosov/Alamy
‘Mogging’ crowned Collins English dictionary word of the year

Bodybuilding slang referring to making someone else look inferior beat entries concerning AI and climate crisis

Mogging – meaning to outperform or outshine someone or something – has been named Collins’s word of the year 2026.