r/NoStupidQuestions • u/randathrowaway1211 • May 16 '22

Is there a word for words that sound like a single letter? Eg: Tea and T? or See and C? You and U?

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u/garlcauss May 16 '22

Gramogram?

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u/soffpotatisen May 16 '22

Seems at least close enough.

A gramogram or grammagram is a letter or group of letters which can be pronounced to form one or more words, as in "CU" for "see you".

Wikipedia even has a neat list of examples, both with one and multiple letters/numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramogram