Text Message Abbreviations – SMS Dictionary Examples

Basically this is just another expression for SMS dictionary or SMS shortcut. These abbreviations are simply the text message shortcuts that people use every day to make sending SMS messages much faster and easier. Some of the shortcuts below are only used for instant messaging or at the end of a text message to convey the mood of the person sending the text message. Some of the txt msg shortcuts are good examples of how people shorten words when sending text messages.

So, let’s take a look at some common text message abbreviations.

SMS abbreviations:

Anything - NTHING
Are you OK - RUOK?
Are - R
Ate - 8
Be - B
Before - B4
Be seeing you - BCNU
Cutie - QT
Date - D8
Dinner - DNR
Easy - EZ
Eh? - A?
Excellent - XLNT
Fate - F8
For - 4
For your information - FYI
Great - GR8
Late - L8
Later - L8R
Lots of love/laughs - Lol
Love - LUV
Mate - M8
Please - PLS
Please call me - PCM
Queue/cue - Q
Rate - R8
See/sea - C
See you later - CU L8R
Speak - SPK
Tea - T
Thanks - THX
Thank you - THNQ
To/too - 2
To be - 2B
Today - 2DAY
Tomorrow - 2MORO
Want to - WAN2
What - WOT
Work - WRK
Why - Y
You - U
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Happy/Smiley  -:-)
Angry - :-||
Very happy - :-))
Confused -  %-)
Tongue tied - :-&
Sad - :-(
Saintly - O:-)
Laughing - :-D
Crying - :'-(
Surprised/shocked - :-O
Screaming - :-@
Kiss - :-*
Pig - :@)
Clown - *:-)
Wink - ;-) 

There are more SMS shortcuts that could form an SMS dictionary, but the more words you use, the less effective the shortcuts will be, as people stop understanding what you are really saying.

In this case, a short “vocabulary” is best so that everyone knows what is being said.