anacronym
Plural: anacronyms
Noun
- An acronym that is usually no longer thought of as such, but instead treated as a regular word and styled in lower case despite its etymological origin.
Examples
- When you write about using a waterproof laser pointer while scuba diving, you probably aren’t going to write about “a L.A.S.E.R. pointer for S.C.U.B.A. diving”, because the words laser and scuba are anacronyms.
Origin / Etymology
Perhaps blend of anachronism + acronym but perhaps an- + acronym, in either case indicating an acronymic word that has lost much of its acronymic identity because people usually no longer focus on the etymonic origin when using the word.
Scrabble Score: 0
anacronym: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionaryanacronym: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
anacronym: not valid in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
anacronym: valid Words With Friends Word