# Install acronym with Homebrew

Python-based tool for creating English-ish acronyms from your fancy project. Version 2.0.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-09.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:acronym
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install acronym
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:acronym
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **Source summary:** Python-based tool for creating English-ish acronyms from your fancy project
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/bacook17/acronym>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-09T10:48:56Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- acronym (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.0.0
## Project history and usage

ACRONYM is a Python command-line tool for generating English-ish acronyms from long project names or phrases.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in 2018, and the README presents the tool as a Python package with both pip installation and source installation via make. The README also links to an arXiv paper describing ACRONYM.

### Adoption history

ACRONYM stayed a small utility rather than a platform feature. Its official README documents pip installation, and Homebrew also packages the command, which puts it in the familiar single-purpose CLI-tool lane.

### How it is used

The documented use is to run acronym with a quoted phrase, after which the tool collects a word corpus, identifies matching acronyms, scores them, and prints ranked options. CLI flags control minimum and maximum acronym length, result count, output file, and strictness.

### Why package nerds care

For package collectors, ACRONYM is the kind of playful text-generation utility that fits well in Unix-style command catalogs: it has one command, a small problem space, and output that can be copied into project naming discussions.

### Timeline

- 2018: GitHub repository created.
- 2019: README points to an arXiv paper describing ACRONYM.
- 2022: Latest repository push shown by official GitHub repository metadata.

### Related projects

- Related contexts include command-line naming tools, word-list utilities, project-name generators, and lightweight natural-language text-generation scripts.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/bacook17/acronym>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bacook17/acronym/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/acronym.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/acronym.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph