Fika, lagom or allemansrätt: What is the best word in the Swedish language?

• Thousands of people have taken part in the hunt to find the best word in the Swedish language.

• The language magazine, Språktidningen has now narrowed the choice down to a top ten of people's favourite Swedish words, and now it's readers are to choose the best one.

• "Some of these words I feel that within your first week in Sweden you will hear, while quite are few of them are quite rare," the language magazine's editor-in-chief Anders Svensson tells Radio Sweden.

Here are the words in the running in the vote by Språktidningen:
1. allemansrätt - the right of public access, Sweden's freedom to roam
2. dagsmeja - melting snow in the late winter, early spring
3. fika - a coffee break, maybe with a cinnamon bun
4. förgätmigej - forget-me-not, a flower
5. förlåt - sorry
6. ju - an adverb used in various contexts and can mean of course, to be sure, it is true...
7. kanske - maybe
8. lagom - just enough
9. morgonrodnad - red light of dawn
10. tillsammans - together