A numeronym is a word where a number is used to form an abbreviation (albeit not an acronym or an initialism).
Pronouncing the letters and numbers may sound similar to the full word: "K9" for "canine" (phonetically: "kay" + "nine"). A similar example in French is "K7" for "cassette" (phonetically: "ka" + "sept").
Alternatively, the letters between the first and last are replaced by a number representing the number of letters omitted, such as "i18n" for "internationalization". Sometimes the last letter is also counted and omitted.
Examples:
- 101 - for basic introduction to a subject
- 212 - for New Yorker
- 411 - for information
- 911 - for help
- a11y - Accessibility
- C10k problem - limitation that most web servers currently have
- c11y - Consumability
- c14n - Canonicalisation / Canonicalization
- d11n - Documentation
- E10S - Electrolysis
- E15 - The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland[4]
- G8 - Group of Eight
- G20 - G-20 major economies
- g11n - Globalisation / Globalization[5]
- i14y - Interoperability[6]
- i18n - Internationalisation / Internationalization
- L10n - Localisation / Localization
- m10n - Mavenization
- m12n - Modularisation / Modularization[7]
- m17n - Multilingualization
- n11n - Normalisation/Normalization
- P13n - Personalisation / Personalization
- P23R - Prozess-Daten-Beschleuniger[8]
- P45 - Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
- s10n - Subscription
- tr8n – Translation[9]
- W3 - World Wide Web
- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
- WWI - World War I
- WWII - World War II
- v11n - Versification[10]
- v12n - Virtualization
- Y2K - the Year 2000 problem
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