Acronym Generator

The common joining words a, an, the, of, and, for, to, in and on. They are dropped so a phrase like The North Atlantic Treaty Organization gives NATO rather than TNATO. Turn Keep small words on to include them all.

They are ignored. Only runs of letters and digits count as words, so commas, slashes, apostrophes and double spaces make no difference to the letters that are chosen.

A hyphen or slash splits the text into separate words, because only letters and digits are read. So cost-benefit analysis becomes CBA, treating cost and benefit as two words.

Yes. Pick a dot, dot-plus-space or hyphen separator to turn WHO into W.H.O, W. H. O or W-H-O. The separator sits between letters only and is never added after the final one.

Yes. Every chosen first letter is uppercased, so the acronym reads in standard form no matter how you capitalized the original phrase.

Yes. Digits count as word characters, and the first character of each word is used. A phrase beginning with 3M Company takes the 3 from 3M, so numbers carry through where they lead a word.

Then every word contributes a letter, including the fillers. For Your Information stays as FYI, while turning the option off would drop For and leave only YI.

The tool just builds the string of first letters. Whether people say it as a word (an acronym like NASA) or spell it out letter by letter (an initialism like FBI) depends on the term itself, not on the tool.

Yes. The acronym is built entirely in your browser and nothing is uploaded, so the phrase you enter stays on your device.