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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". They are a subset of rebuses, and are commonly used as abbreviations.

They are sometimes used as a component of cryptic crossword clues.

Words

 * 1: won
 * 2: to, too
 * 22: tutu
 * 3: tree
 * 4: for, fore
 * 4M: forum (forced)
 * 4T: forty
 * 6T: sixty
 * 7T: seventy
 * 8: ate, hate (forced)
 * 8T: eighty
 * 9T: ninety
 * &: and, end (forced)
 * AT: eighty
 * B: be, bee
 * B2: beat you (forced)
 * B4: before
 * B8: bait, bate
 * B9: benign
 * BD: beady
 * BTU: beat you (forced)
 * BUT: beauty
 * B&: band, banned
 * C: see, sea
 * CD: seedy
 * CL: seal
 * CT: city (forced)
 * C&: canned
 * D: the, thee (forced)
 * D4M: deform (forced)
 * D8: date
 * DK: decay
 * DL: deal
 * DV&: deviant (forced)
 * DVS: devious
 * D&D/D&E: dandy
 * D@: that (forced), dat
 * EU: eww (in context)
 * EQ8: equate
 * EZ: easy, like in E-ZPass and 1040EZ
 * F: have (forced, in context)
 * F8: fate
 * FEKC: efficacy
 * FMN8: effeminate (forced)
 * FND: effendi
 * FNS: finesse
 * FRE1: everyone (forced)
 * FRE: every (forced)
 * FX: effects, affects
 * FXN: affection
 * FXN8: affectionate (forced)
 * F&: fanned
 * F@: fat
 * F@N: fatten
 * GR8: great
 * H8: hate
 * H&: hand
 * H@: hat
 * I: I, eye, aye
 * IC: icy, I see
 * II: aye-aye
 * IV: ivy
 * JL: jail
 * JQZ: jacuzzi
 * K9: canine
 * KL: kale
 * KMN: Caiman, Cayman
 * KND: candy (forced)
 * K&D/K&E: candy
 * K@: cat
 * L: well (forced)
 * L8: late
 * L8R: later
 * LI: ally
 * LO: hello
 * LRG: allergy
 * L&: land
 * M: am
 * MN: Oman (forced)
 * MN8: emanate
 * MT: empty
 * M8: mate
 * M8E/M8T: matey
 * M&: manned
 * N: and, an
 * N4M: inform (forced)
 * NDR: India (forced)
 * NDN: Indian
 * NDNR: Indiana (forced)
 * NE: any
 * NE1: anyone
 * NGL: angel (forced)
 * NMA: anime (forced)
 * NME: enemy
 * NML: animal
 * NMNE: anemone
 * NRG: energy
 * NRK: anarchy
 * NTD/NTT: entity
 * NV: envy
 * NVS: envious
 * O: oh, owe
 * OBDNC: obediency
 * ODS: odious
 * OPM: opium
 * OR: or, oar (forced)
 * P: pea, pee
 * PL: peel
 * PNE: peony
 * PT: pity
 * P&: panned
 * Q8: Kuwait
 * Q8E/QAT: Qu'aiti
 * Q: cue, queue
 * QT: cutie
 * R: are, ar, arr
 * R8: rate
 * RA: array
 * RKDN: Arcadian
 * RST: arrestee
 * RT: arty
 * S&: sand
 * S: is (forced, in context)
 * SA: essay
 * SKP: escapee
 * T: tea, tee
 * TDS: tedious
 * T&: tanned
 * U: you, ewe, yew
 * UL: you all (forced), Yule
 * W8: wait, weight
 * X: ex, eggs
 * XI: Act Sci (forced, colloquial shorthand for Actuarial Science)
 * XL: excel
 * XLNC: excellency
 * XLR8: accelerate
 * XPDNC: expediency
 * XS: excess, exes, Axis (forced)
 * Y: why
 * YL: while
 * YT: whitey
 * Z: said
 * ZT: ziti

Names

 * 1: Juan (forced)
 * 2B: Tubi
 * 8N: Aiden
 * AV: Avie
 * BRB: Barbie (forced)
 * BT: Betty
 * CC: Cece
 * DDD: Dedede
 * DN: Dean
 * FLO: Othello (forced)
 * GG: Gigi
 * IN: Ayn
 * IN R&: Ayn Rand
 * IV: Ivy
 * J: Jay
 * JC: Jaycee
 * KC: Casey, Kacie
 * KLC: Kelsie, Kelsey (forced)
 * KT: Katie, Katy
 * K@: Kat
 * LC: Elsie
 * LE: Ellie, Elly
 * LN: Ellen
 * LS: Ellis
 * LX: Alex (forced)
 * LXNDR/LX&DR: Alexander (forced)
 * M@: Matt
 * ME: Emmy
 * MLE: Emily
 * MNEK: Emenike
 * MNM: M & M, Eminem
 * N: Anne (forced)
 * N8: Nate
 * N8O: NATO
 * N@LE: Natalie
 * NMNEX: Animaniacs (forced)
 * ND/&D/&E: Andy
 * NE: Annie
 * OD: Odie
 * R4: Arthur (forced)
 * RB: Arby
 * RE: Ari
 * RT: Artie
 * RND/R&D/R&E: Randy
 * ST: Esti (short for Esther)
 * T8: Tate
 * T8M: Tatem
 * Z: Zed, Zedd

Prefixes

 * B: be-
 * D: de-
 * X: ex-
 * &I: anti- (forced)
 * &E: anti- (forced)

Suffixes

 * L: -elle
 * N: -in', -ing (forced)
 * R: -er (forced)
 * T: -ty

Sentences

 * FU: A few (forced)
 * FUNEX: Have you any eggs?
 * I8X: I ate eggs., I hate eggs. (forced)
 * ICQ: I seek you
 * ICRUOK: I see, are you okay?
 * ICU: I see you!
 * IMOK: I am okay
 * IOU: I owe you
 * IXL: I excel
 * NUR: And you are?
 * NUROK: And you are okay?
 * OL: Oh well.
 * RUCRES: Are you serious (forced)
 * SNE1OK: Is anyone okay?
 * SOCKS: ¡Eso sí que es! ("That's it!" in Spanish; sometimes erroneously translated as "It is what it is")
 * YRUBNAQT: Why are you being a cutie?
 * 1NONE: One and only (forced)

In arts and culture
A poem reportedly appeared in the Woman's Home Companion of July 1903 using many gramograms: it was preceded by the line "ICQ out so that I can CU have fun translating the sound FX of this poem".

The Marcel Duchamp "readymade" L.H.O.O.Q. is an example of a gramogram. Those letters, pronounced in French, sound like "Elle a chaud au cul, an idiom which roughly translates to "there is fire down below".

The William Steig books CDB! and CDC? written mostly in gramograms.

The suicide prevention charity R U OK?'s name is a gramogram, with supporters encouraged to text "R U OK?" to friends and family to see how that person's mental health is going.

A short gramogram dialogue opening with a customer asking "FUNEX" ("Have you any eggs?") appears in a 1949 book Hail fellow well met by Seymour Hicks and was expanded into a longer sketch of phrasebook-style gramogram dialogue for the comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies, under the title Swedish made simple.

The 1980s Canadian gameshow Bumper Stumpers required contestants to decode gramograms presented as fictional vanity licence plates.