“Lockdown” was the word of 2020, according to the Urgent Spanish Foundation (FundéuRAE) who chose her among the twelve that made up the list of candidates.

In addition to confinement, the other candidates were coronavirus, infodemia, resilience, Covid-19, telecommuting, conspiranoia, tiktok, statue phobia, pandemic, health and vaccine.

Definido como “aislamiento temporal y generalmente impuesto de una población, una persona o un grupo por razones de salud o de seguridad”, the institution, promoted by the EFE Agency and the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) noted that this term has marked a good part of the year.

This is the eighth time that the FundéuRAE has chosen, from among the more than 250 terms to which you have dedicated some of your daily recommendations on the use of the language, your word of the year.

La primera elegida fue “escrache”, in 2013, y más tarde llegaron “selfi” (2014), “refugiado” (2015), “populismo” (2016), “aporofobia” (2017), “microplástico” (2018) Y “emojis” (2019).

“La crisis sanitaria derivada de la pandemia de la covid-19 es la protagonista del año y las medidas implementadas para frenarla han cambiado radicalmente nuestra forma de vivir y de hablar”, argued from the institution and reported the newspaper El País.

“Es un hecho que decimos adiós a este año marcado por el confinamiento. Hopefully the word that defines 2021, and in a positive key, sea ‘vacuna”, indicated the institution.

Confinement had also been highlighted as the word of the year by the Collins English dictionary., which registered an increase in 6.000% in its use with respect to 2019.