Confinement, cynical, pandemic, science, quarantine, bizarre, resilience, ethical or asymptomatic stand out among the first positions of the most searched words.

The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) continues to break records with the Dictionary of the Spanish language (DLE). In the last year, during the period between February 2020 and January 2021, the number of one billion queries made by users around the world through the online edition of the dictionary has been exceeded.

Confinement, cynical, pandemic, science, quarantine, bizarre, resilience, ethical or asymptomatic stand out among the first positions of the words most searched by users in the DLE in the last year. The health crisis and the current socio-political situation at the international level are reflected in the terms in which the speakers have shown the most interest. One example of this is that words such as feminism, culture, philosophy, fascism, power, political, dystopia, procrastination, love, freedom, empathy or democracy are also among the most consulted. All show the interest of Spanish speakers in knowing the reality that surrounds them through their language.

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