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List of acronyms and initialisms



         




This is a list of acronyms, initialisms and pseudo-blends.

For the purposes of this list, an acronym is an abbreviation that is pronounced as a series of constituent letters; an initialism is an abbreviation whose pronunciation is wholly or partly the names of constituent letters; and a pseudo-blend is an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot be considered a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).

(a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome
(i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc
(p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
(s) = symbol (none of the above, stands for and is read as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)
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Please add your own, in a quasi-dictionary order with lowercase treated the same as uppercase and ignoring non-alphanumeric characters (hyphens and such). This means that only alphanumeric characters are significant to determine the order, and that lowercase letters occupy the same ordering position as uppercase (as a tie-breaker, lower case is listed first). For example: Algol appears before ALS. This differs from a strict ASCII ordering.

0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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0-9

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A

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AA

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AB

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AC

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AD-AE

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AF-AG

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AI-AM

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AN-AR

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AS

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AT-AZ

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B

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BA-BC

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BD-BN

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BO-BR

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BS-BY

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C

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CA-CD

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CE-CH

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CI-CM

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CN-CQ

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CR-CW

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D

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DA-DE

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DG-DL

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DM-DQ

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DR-DS

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DT-DZ

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E

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EA-EJ

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EK-EM

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EN-ER

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ES-EZ

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F

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FA-FD

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FE-FI

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FL-FR

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FS-FZ

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G

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GA-GI

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GL-GU

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H

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HA-HG

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HI-HO

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HP-HZ

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I

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IA-IC

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ID-IL

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IM-IQ

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IR-IZ

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J

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K

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L

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LA-LC

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LD-LI

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LL-LO

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LP-LZ

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M

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MA-MD

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ME-MH

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MI-MN

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MO-MR

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MS-MZ

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N

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NA-ND

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NE-NK

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NL-NU

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NV-NZ

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O

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OA-OO

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OP-OZ

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P

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PA-PC

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PD-PK

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PL-PR

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PS-PZ

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Q

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R

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RA-RD

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RE-RK

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RL-RP

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RR-RW

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S

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SA-SC

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SD-SH

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SI-SK

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SL-SN

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SO-SP

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SR-ST

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SU-SW

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T

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TA-TD

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TE-TL

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TM-TS

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TT-TU

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TV-TZ

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U

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UA-UL

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UM-UR

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US-UT

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UU-UZ

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V

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W

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X

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Y

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Z

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Dubious entries

Words that may not be acronyms, but (humorous) fake etymology says that they are (some of these are backronyms):

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See also

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