Gramogram

Instant-messaging app ICQ is a gramogram for "I seek you".

A gramogram, grammagram, or letteral word is a letter or group of letters which can be pronounced to form one or more words, as in "CU" for "see you".[1][2][3] They are a subset of rebuses, and are commonly used as abbreviations.

They are sometimes used as a component of cryptic crossword clues.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b "Cryptic crossword reference lists > Gramograms". Highlight Press. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Grammagrams". Audrey Deal. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Grammagrams". Wordnik. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  4. ^ Caitlin Lovinger (29 February 2020). "Letter Dictation". New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2022.