WYSIWYG

See also: Wysiwyg

English

Etymology

Coined by John Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪz.iˌwɪɡ/, /ˈwɪz.ə.wɪɡ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Phrase

WYSIWYG

1. (acronym) What you see is what you get.

Noun

WYSIWYG ‎(plural WYSIWYGs)

1. (computing) Software that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like; software with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get display interface.
   • 2003, James H. Pence, How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML, page 132:

     WYSIWYGs are helpful tools in that they enable you to create pages much more quickly

Translations

computer program that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 所見即所得 (zh), 所见即所得 (zh) ‎(suǒjiàn jí suǒdé)

• Finnish: WYSIWYG
• German: WYSIWYG (de), wirklichkeitsgetreue Darstellung auf dem Bildschirm
• Hebrew: מה שאתה רואה זה מה שאתה מקבל (informal; there is no formal translation)

• Hungarian: WYSIWYG (hu)
• Portuguese: o que você vê é o que você tem
• Romanian: ceea ce vezi e ceea ce vei obține
• Russian: что ви́дишь, то и полу́чишь ‎(što vídišʹ, to i polúčišʹ), WYSIWYG (ru)
• Turkish: ne görüyorsan onu alırsın (informal; there is no formal translation), WYSIWYG (tr)