Leet
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Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words based on a system of suffixes and alternate meanings. There are many dialects or linguistic varieties in different online communities.
The term "leet" is derived from the word elite, used as an adjective to describe formidable prowess or accomplishment, especially in the fields of online gaming or computer hacking. The leet lexicon includes spellings of the word as 1337 or l33t.
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See also
- Calculator spelling
- Elitism
- Faux Cyrillic
- Geek Code
- IDN homograph attack
- Magic debug values, specific values written to a PC's memory
- Mojibake, garbled text, resulting from text being decoded using an unintended character encoding
- Numeronym, e.g. "K9" for "canine"
- Rebus, an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words
- SMS language, a term for the abbreviations and slang used in mobile phone text messaging and other social technology
- Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced slang dictionary
- Verlan, inversion of syllables in a word
- Jargon File, is a glossary and usage dictionary of computer programmer slang
- Arabic chat alphabet
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