number homophone

English

Noun

number homophone (plural number homophones)

  1. A number that is homophonous to a word or part thereof and may substitute it to shorten it.
    Using its number homophone, the word "for" may be shortened to "4".
  2. An instance of substituting a number in place of a homophonous word or part thereof.
    • 2009, Adams Bodomo, chapter 5, in Computer-mediated Communication for Linguistics and Literacy‎, page 67:
      At the phonological level, half of the approaches, including […] number homophone, […] form shortenings by replacing longer letters or words by shorter letters and words which are either the same as or near to the pronunciations of the longer words.
    • 2006, Brian Paltridge, chapter 10, in Discourse Analysis: An Introduction‎, page 266:
      Thnx dude. u guys out 2nite? [consonant writing, letter homophone, number homophone]
    • 2016, Lieke Verheijen, “Collecting Facebook Posts and WhatsApp Chats”, in Text, Speech, and Dialogue‎, page 255:
      single letter/number homophone: substitution of word by phonologically resembling or identical letter/number, e.g. n (een), t (het), 4 (for)
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