The FundéuRAE (Fundéu, an acronym in Spanish: Fundación del Español Urgente, lit. 'Foundation of Urgent Spanish') is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 in Madrid, Spain. The foundation was created in collaboration with the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), an institution that standardizes the use of Spanish, and Agencia EFE's Department of Urgent Spanish.^[1]

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The foundation was created in 2004^[1] in collaboration with the Royal Spanish Academy. Chaired by that institution's then-director, Víctor García de la Concha,^[2] it took a new name, Fundéu BBVA, in 2008, before returning to its original name, FundéuRAE, in 2020.^[1]

As of 2020, its board of trustees comprises the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado (chair); the chairwoman of Agencia EFE, Gabriela Cañas (vice-chair); the director of Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero, and the academicians José María Merino, Soledad Puértolas and Carme Riera, as well as Álex Grijelmo who, when chairman of EFE, set up the original Fundéu.^[2]

The Word of the Year (Spanish: Palabra del Año) has been selected since 2013 by the Fundéu in collaboration with the Royal Spanish Academy. Javier Lascurain, Fundéu's subdirector and journalist explained "we are looking for a term that is representative of 2013 from the current point of view, of what has been talked about in the media, and that at the same time has a certain linguistic interest due to its formation, its origin, and its use" and announced a shortlist of twelve words.^[3]