| 1 | Stories | Narrative ▸ Stories (social media) | 13.8M | 99% | Duplicate dominant |
| 2 | Reels | Fishing reel ▸ Instagram Reels | 13.7M | 100% | Duplicate dominant |
| 3 | Wiki | Wiki Wiki Shuttle ▸ Wiki | 4.9M | 100% | Duplicate dominant |
| 4 | Telegram | Telegraphy ▸ Telegram (software) | 3.1M | 94% | Duplicate dominant |
| 5 | Minecraft | Mining craft ▸ Minecraft | 2.8M | 94% | Duplicate dominant |
| 6 | Tweet | Bird song ▸ Tweet (social media) | 1.9M | 97% | Duplicate dominant |
| 7 | Web | Spider web ▸ World Wide Web | 1.8M | 93% | Duplicate dominant |
| 8 | Discord | Discord ▸ Discord | 1.6M | 81% | Duplicate dominant |
| 9 | Net | Net (mesh) ▸ The Net (internet) | 1.6M | 100% | Duplicate dominant |
| 10 | Spotify | Spot (identify) ▸ Spotify | 1.4M | 100% | Duplicate dominant |
| 11 | Meme | Meme (Dawkins) ▸ Internet meme | 1.3M | 61% | Duplicate dominant |
| 12 | Godot | Waiting for Godot ▸ Godot (game engine) | 1.1M | 27% | Original holds |
| 13 | Halo | Halo (religious iconography) ▸ Halo (franchise) | 1.0M | 90% | Duplicate dominant |
| 14 | Fortnite | Fortnight ▸ Fortnite | 997K | 87% | Duplicate dominant |
| 15 | Steam | Steam ▸ Steam (service) | 865K | 91% | Duplicate dominant |
| 16 | Viral | Viral (infection) ▸ Viral phenomenon | 704K | 18% | Original holds |
| 17 | Spam | Spam (food) ▸ Spam (electronic) | 667K | 15% | Original holds |
| 18 | Follow | Follow (go after) ▸ Follow (social media) | 664K | — | — |
| 19 | Spider | Spider (arachnid) ▸ Spider (web crawler) | 659K | 20% | Original holds |
| 20 | Substack | Substack (stack) ▸ Substack | 648K | 87% | Duplicate dominant |
| 21 | Catfish | Catfish ▸ Catfishing | 588K | 31% | Original holds |
| 22 | Bluesky | Blue sky ▸ Bluesky | 562K | 96% | Duplicate dominant |
| 23 | Ghosting | Ghost ▸ Ghosting (behavior) | 536K | 18% | Original holds |
| 24 | Signal | Signal ▸ Signal (software) | 491K | 88% | Duplicate dominant |
| 25 | Ghost | Ghost ▸ Ghost (blogging platform) | 465K | 5% | Original holds |
| 26 | Ghost | Ghost (spirit) ▸ Ghost (disk imaging and ghosting) | 461K | 4% | Original holds |
| 27 | Mastodon | Mastodon (animal) ▸ Mastodon (social network) | 446K | 39% | Original holds |
| 28 | Unity | Unity (concept) ▸ Unity (game engine) | 366K | 97% | Duplicate dominant |
| 29 | Troll | Troll (folklore) ▸ Internet troll | 364K | 28% | Original holds |
| 30 | Portal | Portal (architecture) ▸ Portal (video game) | 308K | 96% | Duplicate dominant |
| 31 | Leech | Leech (animal) ▸ Leech (computing) | 298K | 2% | Original holds |
| 32 | Medium | Mediumship ▸ Medium (website) | 274K | 50% | Contested |
| 33 | Stan | Stan (given name) ▸ Stan (fan) | 266K | 94% | Duplicate dominant |
| 34 | Thread | Thread (sewing) ▸ Threads (social network) | 260K | 98% | Duplicate dominant |
| 35 | Link | Link (chain) ▸ Hyperlink | 240K | 80% | Duplicate dominant |
| 36 | NPC | Non-player character ▸ NPC (meme) | 222K | 43% | Contested |
| 37 | Mirror | Mirror ▸ Mirror (computing) | 214K | 23% | Original holds |
| 38 | Respawn | Rebirth ▸ Respawn (gaming) | 186K | — | — |
| 39 | Streamer | Streamer (ribbon) ▸ Streamer (online) | 180K | 96% | Duplicate dominant |
| 40 | Speedrun | Speed running ▸ Speedrun | 160K | 51% | Contested |
| 41 | Crawl | Crawl (movement) ▸ Web crawl | 140K | 93% | Duplicate dominant |
| 42 | Post | Post (pole or mail) ▸ POST (HTTP) | 137K | 32% | Original holds |
| 43 | Boss | Boss (employer) ▸ Boss (video games) | 122K | 62% | Duplicate dominant |
| 44 | Flame | Flame (fire) ▸ Flaming (internet) | 119K | 4% | Original holds |
| 45 | Glitch | Glitch (malfunction) ▸ Glitch art | 114K | 47% | Contested |
| 46 | Feed | Feed (animal) ▸ News feed | 99K | 33% | Original holds |
| 47 | Handle | Handle (grip) ▸ Handle (username) | 93K | 87% | Duplicate dominant |
| 48 | Noon | Noon ▸ HackerNoon | 89K | — | — |
| 49 | Influencer | Social influence ▸ Influencer marketing | 87K | 58% | Contested |
| 50 | Share | Share (portion or stock) ▸ Share button | 77K | — | — |
| 51 | Lurk | Lurk (linger) ▸ Lurker (online) | 40K | — | — |
| 52 | Like | Like (enjoy) ▸ Like button | 33K | 97% | Duplicate dominant |
| 53 | Lag | Lag (delay) ▸ Lag (video games) | 17K | 85% | Duplicate dominant |
| 54 | Doom | Doom (fate) ▸ Doomscrolling | — | — | — |
| 55 | Ratio | Ratio (math) ▸ Ratio (social media) | — | — | — |
| 56 | Story | Story (narrative) ▸ Story (social media) | — | — | — |