wysiwyg

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   relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen

Questions about wysiwyg

What does wysiwyg mean?

wysiwyg means "relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen".

How many syllables are in wysiwyg?

wysiwyg has 3 syllables and divides as wy-si-wyg under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is wysiwyg a common word?

wysiwyg is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.