# Numeronym Guide

Turn long words into numeronyms like i18n.

- Tool: https://ilham.dev/tools/numeronym/
- Guide URL: https://ilham.dev/guides/numeronym/
- Tool guides index: https://ilham.dev/guides/tools/
- Broader guide: Text Formatting and Cleanup (https://ilham.dev/guides/text-formatting-and-cleanup/)

## What it does

Turn a long word into a numeronym — the first letter, the number of letters omitted and the last letter, so internationalization becomes i18n.

## Use the tool

Open https://ilham.dev/tools/numeronym/, add the input the tool asks for, run it, and check the output before using it elsewhere.

## Input and output

- Input: text.
- Output: text.
- Category: Text.

## Privacy and processing
Processing happens locally in your browser. This tool does not upload the input to ilham.dev.

## Questions

### Why is it called a numeronym?

Because the omitted letters are replaced by their count. The pattern long predates the web — a11y for accessibility, k8s for Kubernetes, l10n for localization.