This year, millions of learners across the globe boosted their vocabulary with Vocabulary.com.
Vocabulary.com offers a better way to teach and learn new words for users across the world! While our activities are adaptable to meet every learner’s vocabulary level and close their unique word gaps, we’ve analyzed all the word work done on Vocabulary.com to see some overall trends for 2022. Keep reading to find out more about who our word learners are and what they learned this year.
Where were word learners in 2022?
This year, users in more than 250 countries across the world logged in to Vocabulary.com to boost their word knowledge! The countries with the most users are the United States of America, India, China, Vietnam, and Canada. We are thrilled to see word learning take place worldwide, for both native speakers and English language learners!
In the US, Florida topped the charts for most words mastered in 2022 with over 5 million. The top mastered word in Florida was claim, mastered by over 7,500 learners in the Sunshine State. Other states in the top 5 include:
- California
- Texas
- New York
- Illinois
What were they learning?
Words for reading and writing
Learners everywhere searched paradox, affect, satire, and integrity the most in 2022. These words also appeared on our Current Events lists due to their appearance in the news.
The most mastered words of 2022 were metaphor, simile, evidence, claim, and analyze. Those words sound like critical thinking-related words to us and these literary words support your efforts to be better readers, writers, and communicators. Learning academic words like these help all learners in the classroom and beyond.Top books
Our readers picked some fantastic books in 2022. The top 5 are Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. These top books have kept readers intrigued for generations and continue to challenge students on their word-learning journeys.
Teachers and students rely on Vocabulary.com to provide curriculum-aligned word learning. Here are the top books teachers and students read in 2022.
Top 5 elementary books
- Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Life Is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Top 5 middle school books
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Top 5 high school books
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Curated lists
Our list with the most learners is Essential Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students with over 40,000 learners! Great job to all our middle schoolers mastering new words!
In addition to lists that align with commonly assigned books and curriculum, our team also curates thematic, topical collections throughout the year. For instance, our Words to Help You Win at Wordle collection remains popular after the new game took us all by storm earlier in the year.Vocabulary.com learners must also like to look at the positives because our Positive Words to Describe a Person list has more learners than our Negative Words to Describe a Person with 15,000 to 9,000 learners respectively.
How did learners use Vocabulary.com?
Learners loved our newest feature from 2022, Flashcards. All of our lists feature Flashcards to get learners familiar with new words, in a flash!
Vocabulary.com's adaptive and systematic approach to word learning helps all word learners improve their vocabulary and target their trouble words. Read more about our new features and updates.