What Is a Listicle?

What is a listicle?  Well, let’s break it down:

  • A listicle is a piece of writing or an article
  • In the form of a list, or
  • Consisting primarily of a list, or
  • Using a list-style to organize it contents, or
  • Presenting two or more lists, or
  • An article that annotates one or more lists.

In other words, you take any topic about which you can arrange a list of facts and write the facts out in a list-like order.  Each item in the list can be a word, a phrase, a sentence, or even an entire paragraph.

Listicles are popular formats for short blog articles because they are easy to write, fun to read, and can cover any topic about which two or more facts are known.

And now that you know what listicles are, we’re done.