chatspeak
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The blend of informal language, conventional abbreviations and emoticons typical of chatrooms.
Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Given that people are trying to speak by writing in real time, chatspeak is infused with extensive abbreviations and there is little punctuation."
- "Our students are using Internet shorthand or chatspeak in their online yakking in chat rooms and e-mails."
- "I don't mind saying 'u' instead of 'you' so much, mostly because I've become numb to it, and some people do it because it's 'cool' to speak chatspeak."
- "Is it too much to imagine a Bible written entirely in the language of tomorrow: Internet chatspeak and text message shorthand?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der. Middle English chateren English chatterclip. English chat English -speak English chatspeak From chat + -speak.