2022 has been a year of excellent wordplay. Of the 561 words published, more than 100 received one vote or more. The Top 10 contest was extremely close, with a number of entries getting the same number of points: in those cases, the word that got the most votes takes precedence.
Geoff Williams is our winner this year with “Anziogram”, which turned out to be prescient: Geoff was a prolific contributor with a delightful sense of humour, as the results over the past few years attest.
As has often been the case in the past, several of the winners are “one-word wonders”, whilst our more prolific contributors are limited to one word each for the Top 10 category and two in the others. Congratulations to all our winners.
| Rank | Word | Original Word | Definition | Name |
| TOP 10 | ||||
| 1 | Anziogram | Angiogram | A secret map of a site for a seaborne landing in Italy during the Second World War | Geoff Williams |
| 2 | Straycation | Staycation | A holiday for polygamists. | Ruth Krause |
| 3 | Commatose | Comatose | Briefly falling asleep during short pauses whilst reading and waking up again after a period. | Doug Langmead |
| 4 | Confidunce | Confidence | Overly self assured actually incompetent idiot. | Carol Marantz |
| 5 | Telapathy | Telepathy | Having the ability to read minds but not caring to | Amber Deaton |
| 6 | Pubstitution | Substitution | When your date leaves the bar with someone else | Rod Noles |
| 7 | Flunctionality | Functionality | The ability of a tool, machine, or process to successfully fail at its expected purpose. | Gary Hellmers |
| 8 | Syncopatient | Syncopation | The ability to not get frustrated while you try to reset the clocks on the oven and the microwave so they show the same time. | Steve Cozzetto |
| 9 | Sarchasm | Sarcasm | A sardonic divide | William Tunn |
| 10 | Procraptinate | Procrastinate | Putting off s*** that you don”t want to do | Will Caplinger |
| BEST OF THE REST | ||||
| 1 | Cowcophony | Cacophony | Raucous moosic herd in fields | Doug Langmead |
| 2 | Carryon | Carrion | The amount of luggage that a crow can carry on a commercial aircraft | Geoff Williams |
| 3 | Antimate | Intimate | Bedtime headache medication | Rod Noles |
| 4 | Wimpledon | Wimbledon | A very prestigious tennis tournament played at England’s hallowed grounds but restricted to nuns only. | Geoff Williams |
| 5 | Bastropod | Gastropod | Fatherless Mollusc | Rod Noles |
| 6 | Girthday | Birthday | Decision to begin diet on one’s date of birth. | Carole Marantz |
| 7 | Neighborhoods | Neighborhood | Why your car’s tires and catalytic converters are missing | Emille Ouellette |
| 8 | Fortifucation | Fortification | Preparations for safe sex | Rod Noles |
| 9 | Pmail | How dogs communicate | Dale Steel | |
| 10 | Oinkment | Ointment | The key ingredient required to grease a pig | Wayne Price |
| RINGERS | ||||
| 1 | Exasturbate | Exacerbate | To make something worse by playing with it | Timmothy Copeland |
| 2 | Compost mentis | Compos mentis | 1] A perturbation in your moral compass compounded by a fertile imagination 2] A dirty mind |
Doug Langmead |
| 3 | Phlegmish | Flemish | How you feel when you have a stuffy nose and find that you’ve also developed a Dutch accent. | Bar Lowenberg |
| 4 | Emmytaph | Epitaph | “as I lie in heavenly repose I’d like to thank my director and producer as well as my legions of fans who stayed with us when this sitcom first piloted…” | Steve Cozzetto |
| 5 | Cowculator | Calculator | A bovine mathematician | Sarit Hovav |
| 6 | Prima Doner | Prima Donna | A snack that’s full of itself | Rob Vosper |
| 7 | Crap circles | Crop circles | What happens when aliens get diarrhoea. | Timmothy Copeland |
| 8 | Quip pro quo | Quid pro quo | A snappy comeback | Melissa Kelley |
| 9 | Mannapause | Menopause | A biblical famine; albeit a short one | Steve Cozzetto |
| 10 | Tiramagotchi | Tamagotchi | An attention-seeking dessert | Doug Langmead & Gillian Winter |