🔤Acronym Generator

About this tool

Type one or more phrases, one per line, and each becomes an acronym in a table with the letters it uses highlighted. You can skip small joining words, split hyphenated or slashed words, keep numbers whole, add full stops and choose upper, lower or original case. Copy all the acronyms at once.

How acronyms are formed

Most acronyms take the first letter of each important word. National Aeronautics and Space Administration becomes NASA, Portable Network Graphics becomes PNG, and Frequently Asked Questions becomes FAQ. Joining words such as and, of, the, for and to are normally left out, which is why it isn't NAASA. The first word is always kept, even when it's small, as in As Soon As Possible → ASP with skipping on, or ASAP with it off. Small words inside a hyphenated or slashed compound are kept, so roll-on/roll-off gives RORO. Numbers can stay whole (Web 3 Foundation → W3F). Full stops (N.A.S.A.) are the traditional style and are still preferred by some style guides for initialisms, though most modern writing drops them. Strictly speaking, an acronym is pronounced as a word (NASA, scuba, laser), while an initialism is spelled out letter by letter (FBI, FAQ, HTML). Everyday usage calls both acronyms. If you're naming a team, product, project or event, write the idea several ways, try synonyms and reorder words until the letters make something short and memorable. Then search the result to make sure it isn't taken, trademarked or rude in another language. Honest limits: the tool applies simple rules. It can't know that some well-known acronyms take two letters from one word, such as Radar from RAdio Detection And Ranging. The case converter, title case and the slug generator are related.

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