Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - Podcast Rankings and reviews

As a septuagenarian logophile in 5+ languages, this podcast is a short highlight of my day, especially when it delves into etymologies and linguistic evolution. Keep up this excellently produced podcast. It should be required listening at the beginning of every English class daily throughout the English-speaking world.

I personally love this. I am an aspiring writer and love expanding my vocabulary. They go into every necessary detail of each word and give multiple examples and uses. It’s fantastic, I am so excited for more.

Yes there is a single ad in every episode but let’s be honest here. It’s a podcast about 1 word every day. each episode is a couple minutes long at most and the developers need revenue. Don’t listen to the complaints about ads. You’re listening to a free podcast. Learn to live with the ads. Thank you to the team of this show and please never stop!

This podcast by Merriam-Webster is the audio version of their Word of the Day email newsletter. Written to educate listeners on a fresh word every day. It covers the word’s meaning, uses over time, origins, and other fun facts about it. I really enjoy queuing a few at the beginning of my day’s feed. All of the contexts for each word makes it really easy to remember them. Even if I know the word, I can still learn something new about it. It might be one of the most useful podcasts I follow. Hosted by Peter Sokolowski the show is 4.4 out of 5 and 933 Ratings. Apple Podcasts only seems to have the latest 10 episodes but through art19.com I was able to find every episode back to the show’s air date on 10/24/2006. Since then, the show has posted a word of the day every single day including holidays for 5,389 three-minute-long episodes total. The pod has had some technical issues in the distant past but have since been cleared up including download issues, mistitled episodes, and uneven volume for intro and ads. The pod is 15 years old, so some growing pains are expected. Ads seem to be the chief complaint among listeners, but I think they’re fine especially if you only listen to one or two a day.

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Love this quick podcast to deepen and enhance my vocabulary.

I only wish the first and LAST thing I heard was the word and it’s definition.

My HS kids listen as well to at the very least be familiar with ACTUAL words.

I especially love the History of the word.

Thanks again

I’ve been a loyal listener for a number of years. This was my first podcast each day. I noticed a change in the writing and content a number of months ago. It’s shorter, not as playful, and there’s a dearth of related words. Hope you’ll return to the more interesting format.