The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2015 is not a word. The dictionary publisher has selected the “face with tears of joy” emoji — a pictograph commonly used in text messages — as ...

Oxford Dictionaries selected the "face with tears of joy" emoji as its "word" of the year for 2015 in both the U.S. and the U.K. Emojipedia By Stav is a general assignment staff writer for Newsweek .