The most searched slang and word definitions for 2026 have been revealed.
Heard someone talking about "aura points" or yelling "67"? And then secretly pulled out your phone to avoid feeling like a total dinosaur? You’re not alone.
Google has been keeping receipts, and the numbers are in on South Africa’s most-searched slang words so far in 2026.
Unscramblerer.com has conducted an analysis of Google Trends for terms related to slang words from January 1, 2026, to August 25, 2026. The site's Randoh Sallihall said the research was conducted by word unscrambling experts.
“We used Google Trends to discover the top trending slang terms and Ahrefs (an AI marketing platform) to find the number of searches. South Africa's most popular slang terms can be discovered in Google Trends through the keyword 'meaning'. People will hear or read slang terms and search for the meaning of the term (example '67 meaning'). Ahrefs shows many variations of meaning searches like 'slang' or 'means' (example 'aura slang') and similar keyword combinations (e.g. 'what does mog mean'). We added up 150 search variations of top slang terms".
