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# How to pronounce WYSIWYG

acronym community-consensus

whizzy wig /ˈwɪziwɪɡ/
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WYSIWYG is most commonly pronounced "whizzy wig" (/ˈwɪziwɪɡ/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

"WIZ-ee-wig".

Source: Wikipedia

Pronouncing project and product names correctly avoids the small but persistent friction of being gently corrected during standups, conference Q&As, and team calls. Hearing the word a few times locks in the right reading better than reading IPA ever will. Pronounce is a community-maintained dictionary — every entry tagged with a confidence level and (where possible) a citable source.

## Hear it from the command line

$ say-it WYSIWYG # primary × 3 + audible "or: …" for each alternate
$ say-it --why WYSIWYG # print the dict entry with source URL

Install the CLI: `git clone https://github.com/anzy-renlab-ai/pronounce.git && cd pronounce && ./install.sh`

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Audio on this page is rendered by your browser's Web Speech API, whose voice varies by OS and browser. The CLI (`say-it WYSIWYG`) uses macOS's built-in `say` with a tuned respelling for a consistent reading. Found an issue or want to add a reading? Contribute on GitHub.

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