wysiwyg
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 7
/ˈwɪz.iˌwɪɡ/
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/ˈwɪz.iˌwɪɡ/ · /ˈwɪz.ə.wɪɡ/
Definition of wysiwyg
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
phrase
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of what you see is what you get.
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phrase
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of what you see is what you get.
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of WYSIWYG.
noun
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A type of software that maintains a close correspondence between the screen image and the printed image.
“WYSIWYGs are helpful tools in that they enable you to create pages much more quickly”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.
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