Wiktionary:Word of the day/Nominations/Archive 2025

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mozzetta (Check: R, G, H, W, Y) - to coincide with the new pope? Vilipender (talk) 21:52, 21 April 2025 (UTC) — set for 9 May 2025 (election of Pope Leo XIV on 8 May). — Sgconlaw (talk) 18:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
postern (Check: R, G, H, W, Y) – Jberkel 10:11, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
Already nominated (by me) on 1 June 2022. DonnanZ (talk) 23:00, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
zygote (Check: R, G, H, W, Y) - @Sgconlaw moved this here. zygotene could also work for this, it has a cool etymology. — This unsigned comment was added by Femtocoulomb (talk • contribs) at 14:42, 17 April 2025 (UTC). — zygote set for 22 May 2025 (International Day for Biological Diversity). — Sgconlaw (talk) 17:44, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
for the birds (Check: R, G, H, W, Y) - nonsense, avian, idiomatic, and euphemstic — This unsigned comment was added by Vilipender (talk • contribs) at 22:43, 4 April 2025. — set for 10 May 2025 (World Migratory Bird Day). — Sgconlaw (talk) 22:32, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

bend it like Beckham (Check: R, G, H, W, Y) — Would be good for a soccer event, or David Beckham's birthday Father of minus 2, 10:17, 27 March 2025 (UTC) — set for 2 May 2025 and the WOTD fallback for 2 May (birth anniversary of David Beckham). — Sgconlaw (talk) 21:30, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

aprimorate (Check: R, G, H, W, Y) It's used by some Lusophone non-native speakers and relates to the day's aim of mental health improvement. Davi6596 (talk) 14:27, 14 January 2025 (UTC) — set for 5 May 2025 (World Portuguese Language Day). Not really seeing the connection to World Mental Health Day. — Sgconlaw (talk) 22:55, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
~~bento box (Check: R, G, H, W, Y) - DonnanZ (talk) 00:14, 2 January 2025 (UTC)~~ — set for 29 April 2025 (Showa Day). — Sgconlaw (talk) 21:34, 20 April 2025 (UTC)