If life is a contest, the way the folks at Guinness World Records seem to treat it, how exactly does one win? Is it by ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday ...

This video reveals how chemical names and fictional creations produced words ranging from dozens to nearly 190,000 letters, making the true longest English word almost impossible to pronounce.

Here's today's Wordle answer, plus a look at spoiler-free hints and past solutions. These clues will help you solve The New York Times' popular puzzle game, Wordle, every day.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word famous for its length, describes a lung disease caused by inhaling fine ...

Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, according to a study. People perceive words with different sounds as differing in their beauty, say linguists. The new study suggests that the phonemic ...

Words with a pleasant sound are easier to remember, a study by the University of Vienna has found. Invented words like "clisious", "smanious" and "drikious" were presented to around 100 ...

A person's name forms a vital part of who they are, serving as how they introduce themselves to others, and is typically the first thing mentioned in conversation. People will seldom share their ...

It can be surprising to discover that the English language sometimes has pleasant surprises in words pronounced one way but meaning something entirely different. "Pulchritude" is one such word. Upon ...

Before Spelling Bee, before Wordle and before Connections, there was the crossword. Who invented the first published crossword, and what was it? On Dec. 21, 1913, the New York World, a prominent New ...