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German language word 'Ragebait' named Youth Word of the Year 2026

Rank
Running: 26h
Updated: 5h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 15
Regions: 1
Countries: 3
Languages: 2

Deutsche Welle Germany · English 10 Oct, 13:36 UTC

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Die Zeit, 10 Oct, 11:52 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with ORF.
Fastest hour: +11 outlets from 10 Oct, 11:52 UTC.
Now: 15 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Europe 15 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

Die Zeit 10 Oct, 11:52 UTC
n-tv +1m
Der Spiegel +7m
ZDF heute +8m
Frankfurter Allgemeine +8m

Latest arrivals

Deutschlandfunk 10 Oct, 21:08 UTC
Deutsche Welle 10 Oct, 13:36 UTC
taz 10 Oct, 13:25 UTC
Blick 10 Oct, 13:23 UTC
T-Online 10 Oct, 12:40 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 15 outlets in 3 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 15 outlets, 6 public-service, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 3: Austria, Germany, Switzerland. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: German, English.
Timeline: Earliest article Die Zeit, 10 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 08:56 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, Germany. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.18, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

10 Oct 2026 110 4.85 15 3 15 3 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 12:00 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 08:56 UTC

Covered by 15 outlets

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T-Online Germany 11 Oct, 08:56 UTC
Jugendwort des Jahres 2026: "Ragebait" gewinnt Abstimmung
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- Jugendwort des Jahres 2026: "Ragebait" gewinnt die Abstimmung 10 Oct, 12:40 UTC
Deutschlandfunk Germany 10 Oct, 22:20 UTC
Online-Abstimmung - "Ragebait" ist das Jugendwort des Jahres 2026
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- Online-Abstimmung - "Ragebait" ist das Jugendwort des Jahres 2026 10 Oct, 21:08 UTC
Tagesschau Germany 10 Oct, 18:29 UTC
"Ragebait" ist Jugendwort des Jahres 2026
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- "Ragebait" ist Jugendwort des Jahres 2026 10 Oct, 12:00 UTC
Deutsche Welle Germany 10 Oct, 13:36 UTC
'Ragebait' is the 2026 German Youth Word of the Year
taz Germany 10 Oct, 13:25 UTC
Jugendwort 2026: „Ragebait“ macht das Rennen
Blick Switzerland 10 Oct, 13:23 UTC
Jugendwort 2026 steht fest
Der Standard Austria 10 Oct, 12:36 UTC
"Ragebait" ist das deutsche Jugendwort des Jahres 2026
SRF Switzerland 10 Oct, 12:05 UTC
Angesagte Floskel 2026 – «Ragebait» ist Jugendwort des Jahres
ORF Austria 10 Oct, 12:05 UTC
„Ragebait“ ist deutsches Jugendwort des Jahres 2026
Berliner Morgenpost Germany 10 Oct, 12:02 UTC
„Ragebait“ ist das Jugendwort des Jahres 2026 – was es bedeutet
Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 10 Oct, 12:00 UTC
Jährliche Abstimmung: „Ragebait“ ist das Jugendwort des Jahres
ZDF heute Germany 10 Oct, 12:00 UTC
"Ragebait" ist das offizielle Jugendwort des Jahres 2026
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- "Ragebait" auf die 1: Das Jugendwort des Jahres 10 Oct, 12:00 UTC
Der Spiegel Germany 10 Oct, 11:59 UTC
Jugendwort des Jahres 2026: »Ragebait« setzt sich gegen »Peak« und »Crashout« durch
Die Zeit Germany 10 Oct, 11:56 UTC
Jugendwort des Jahres: Ragebait ist das Jugendwort des Jahres
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n-tv Germany 10 Oct, 11:53 UTC
Rund eine Million stimmte ab: "Ragebait" ist Jugendwort des Jahres