They speak! Few words are as eagerly anticipated as your baby's first. After the initial excitement and cooing over their genius subsides, many of us wonder whether that first word was a common one.

Not "work." Not "home." It's way, way bigger than that. Imagine someone downloaded all the words on the Internet—every email, every Facebook update, every ebook, scientific report, magazine article, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bookmark this story if you frequently play Wordle. It includes a ranking of the most commonly used letters in the English language ...

English is one of the most popular languages in the world. About 2 billion people speak it but how deeply has it really made its way into cultures around the world?

Wordle, the daily word guessing game, is taking Twitter, the world, and my relationship by storm. If you haven’t heard of it—how?—the rules are simple. Every day there’s a new five-letter word (a ...

The English language, chock-full of thousands of words and quirky borrowed phrases, can be mind-boggling. Take idioms, for instance. These common figurative or literary phrases don’t make much sense ...