Akronym
German, noun[ˌak.ʁoˈnyːm]
Akronym is spelled A-K-R-O-N-Y-M (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 63,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Akronym is a German neuter noun meaning “acronym (a word formed by initial letters)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Abkürzung, die als eigenes Wort gesprochen wird; bezeichnet ein Kurzwort, das aus den Anfangsbuchstaben…”.
What does Akronym mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuteracronym (a word formed by initial letters)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine Abkürzung, die als eigenes Wort gesprochen wird; bezeichnet ein Kurzwort, das aus den Anfangsbuchstaben oder -silben von mehreren Wörtern oder aus einem Kompositum entstanden ist 2. Kurzwort, das aus den Anfangsbuchstaben mehrerer Wörter gebildet ist
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Akronym
- Akronyms genitive
- Akronyme plural
- Akronymen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Akronym?
- [ˌak.ʁoˈnyːm]
- [ˌakʁoˈnyːm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Akronym
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Akronym in German?
Akronym appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).