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Is acronym a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word acronym is a Scrabble US word. The word acronym is worth 14 points in Scrabble:
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Is acronym a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word acronym is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:
A1C3R1O1N1Y4M3
Is acronym a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word acronym is a Words With Friends word. The word acronym is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
A1C4R1O1N2Y3M4
You can make 128 words from acronym according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Borrowed from German Akronym, from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “end, peak”) and ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to acro- (“high; beginning”) + -onym (“name”). Modelled after Homonym and Synonym, first attested in German in the early 1900s and in English in 1940.
acronym (plural acronyms)
The broader sense of acronym inclusive of initialisms (as TNT) is sometimes proscribed, but is the term's original and more common meaning. The status of an acronym's pronunciation is not always obvious, as some initialisms have gained interstitial vowels to ease their expression (as /ˈwɪzdəl/ for WSDL) and others are pronounced alternatively as words or initialisms (as /ˈsiːkwəl/ or /ɛskjuːɛl/ for SQL).
Acronyms in all senses may variously be written in all capital letters (as UNESCO or WYSIWYG) or in lower case (as scuba or sitcom), according to the degree to which they have come to be seen as words separate from their derivation (that is, depending on how anacronymic they have become). American style guides tend to favor the use of capital spelling for pronounced acronyms of four letters or fewer (as NATO) whereas British style guides tend to favor standard capitalization of pronounced acronyms as though they were a standard word (Nato). Acronyms formed from beginning syllables are sometimes written in camel case (as EpiPen or CHiPs), although this may be precluded by style guides. Mixed capitalization is also sometimes used when acronyms include words usually left uncapitalized in title case but which have been included for pronunciation or clarity (as VaR (“Value at Risk”)); in other cases, the standard acronym capitalizes such minor words as well (as TOEFL (“Test of English as a Foreign Language”)).
Like all abbreviations, acronyms were formerly usually punctuated with full stops or periods to mark the divisions between the original words (as U.S.A. or P.R.C.) but this punctuation is increasingly omitted, particularly in the case of acronyms treated as generic words (as radar and sonar) and in acronyms formed from syllables rather than letters. Folk etymologies frequently imagine acronymic expansions for such common words as fuck, shit, and posh, but the earliest English acronym listed by the OED is a form of abjad in 1793, and their use did not become widespread (throughout the language) until the world wars of the 20th century.
acronym (third-person singular simple present acronyms, present participle acronyming or acronymming, simple past and past participle acronymed or acronymmed)