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English is not my first language, but Im pretty sure those are 2 words.
Usually I see it as the compound word "brainrot". Not sure why they decided to add a space there.
Apparently 2019 was "climate emergency". So they use phrases as the "word" of the year pretty regularly.
Victorians would totally have written "brain-rot." They had some weird ideas about punctuation.
I read one 19th century novel where every contraction had two apostrophes: ca'n't, should'n't.
Forgot english can "cheat" like that.
You should see German, where an entire paragraph of text can be one word.
An entire paragraph!! lol
I do have seen very long compound words in german tho.
Written English has three different conventions for representing compound words: closed (milkshake), hyphenated (cold-blooded), and open (green bean).
When certain separate words commonly used together start to blend logically into one concept, it makes sense to define the new "word" separately (particularly when that concept diverges from the separate definitions).
A fine example of how stupid people have become.
No one wants to bring up education.
Hasn’t this term been around since before social media?
First used in 1854, “brain rot” resurfaced in 2024 amid debates on humanity’s relationship with technology.
Square eyes
Oxford chooses "brain rot", a phrase referring to social media, therefore ensuring they trend on social media.