What is your most-used word in 2025 (and why)?

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I have just received a notification for my “2025 Rewind”, which is a thing of pure joy, no notes, nothing to add, utter perfection. The old-school technology vibe is perfectly executed. The sound version of the daily rhythm, I can’t even.

Thank you, my week has been made.

My most-used word is apparently, “generally”, which I’m afraid is accurate. Generally, I like to give myself some wiggle room in case somebody mentions an exception I didn’t think of.

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I moved from “General” to the “Forum Feedback” category since this thread is about the forum itself and not iNat per se.

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  1. Nature
  2. Talk
  3. GENERALLY
  4. Groups
  5. Birders
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That’s great, thanks! (I wasn’t sure.) What was your most-used word? :slight_smile:

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Mine is “observed”, for probably obvious reasons. “general” is my second one (I’m more a “in general” rather than a “generally” type of person, apparently :P)
“Naturally” is my 3rd; 4 is “talk” and 5 is “one”.

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I didn’t read and disabled, eg

so I am not sure.

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Fair. It would probably be something moderator-y, like “thread”.

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naturally 1061x

talk 930x

general 486x

observer 348x

questions 274x

In real life I think it’s “what?”

Naturally, I talk, in general about observer questions.

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Generally and Naturally. But next year I’ll make sure it will be Usually and Typically. Odd that those words rise to the top for many.

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Observation - Because without this word, my second word means nothing.
inaturalist - See above, but in reverse.
natural - Nature is life.
talk - ?
one - ?

I can’t imagine I would have typed out ‘talk’ 84 times this year… 86 now, I guess. * shrugs *

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general 2.6K ? ! (no Generals parading on my iNat, that I noticed) - ID - iNaturalist - iNat - obs.

The more interesting words must lurk at 6 to 10.

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Natural

General

Naturalist

Funny to see!

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I got Observation, General, Nature, and iNaturalist

So many generals!

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Apparently there is a toggle switch to make it publicly viewable on the forum? (I’m testing it)

https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/AdamWargon/activity/rewind

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Now it is visible …

You are viewing AdamWargon’s Discourse Rewind report.

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Mine are:
Nature (281x)
Talking (280x)
Photos (248x)
Photography (161x)
Best (150x)

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iNaturalist, species, observation, generalizations (??), likes

The rewind says I’ve used “generalizations” 453 times this year. Searching the forum I can only find one example… I think it’s broken. Does anyone have a longer word than that in their rankings?

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Mine are:

nature (85x)

iNaturalist (50x)

like (35x)

observed (30x)

pictures (30x).

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  1. generally
  2. iNaturalist
  3. observed
  4. IDs
  5. iNatting

“iNatting” is going out in nature and taking photos with the intent to post them on iNat

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Naturally 653x (I honestly don’t remember using this at all)
Talking 605x (hmm…)
iNaturalist 293x (probably right)
Group 189x (maybe…)
Weeks 183x (also probably right)

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