The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) announced this Monday a new update of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) for its 24th edition, scheduled for publication in November 2026.
In total, more than 300 new features are incorporated which include both new terms and already present voices with additional meaning added. Among the most notable additions are brutal, simpa, crowdfunding, okey, millenial or farlopa.
In Bad Languages they wanted to revisit some of these words and María Molero took charge of commenting on them with Jesús Cintora and his viewers.
“A total of 333 words have been incorporated into the RAE. Among them we can find bocachancla, although surely we think of some people who speak without any shame”, commented the journalist.
“We also find login, a word that comes from Internet slang, social networks… that is, when we access any account or website by means of a password,” Molero explained.
And he warned that “you have to be careful that the word gif is incorporated, which are these small images that people exchange via WhatsApp this movement. “They included it as a foreign word.”
From the RAE they commented that it is an update of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language with “less pretensions” than previous occasions.
This is a preview of the future 24th edition, in which the institution strives to offer a “much more renewed and expanded” version, as explained by its director and president of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE), Santiago Muñoz Machado.
The institution has published digital version 23.8.1 of the dictionary, an overview of the work that the Language Academies have developed this year and which serves as a prelude to the 24th edition of the DLE.
Among the new developments there are voices that respond “to the small revolution of words caused by the emergence of technology, which has an enormous effect on language and which does not occur frequently”, as explained by Elena Zamora, director of the Institute of Lexicography, and director of the RAE and president of ASALE, Santiago Muñoz Machado.
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