Reddit (English)

Where does "Reddit" come from?

The name of the website Reddit, founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian[1], originates as a play on words of the phrase 'read it' with 'read' in the past tense[1].

Full etymology tree

• Reddit (English), 'An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.'
  • blend read (English), 'simple past and past participle of read'
  • blend it (English), 'The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.'

Descendants and derived words

• Plebbit (English)
• reddiquette (English)
• Redditor (English)
• subreddit (English)

Related words

• karma (English)

Sources

1. Reddit (English) - Wiktionary

Updated October 2026

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