WYLL (Dating Term)

What Does WYLL Mean in a Text?

The Quick Answer

WYLL means "What You Look Like."

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The abbreviation WYLL is often used to represent the question "What (do) you look like?" It is a casual way of asking someone about their physical appearance. For example:

• Your profile emoji is funny. WYLL?
• You seem nice. WYLL?
• I'm tall, slim and handsome. WYLL?

The question "What do you look like?" is also abbreviated as WDYLL.

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When I write WYLL, I mean this:

WYLL is a casual way of asking someone about their physical appearance.

Summary of Key Points

We have summarized the key points in the table below:

WYLL
Definition:	What You Look Like?
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	3: Guessable
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

An Academic Look at WYLL

WYLL is classified as an initialism. Initialisms are abbreviations pronounced one letter at a time. Other examples of initialisms are:

• FBI - "Federal Bureau of Investigation."
• CEO - "Chief Executive Officer."

Initialisms are different to acronyms, which are abbreviations spoken as words. For example:

• GOAT - "Greatest Of All Time."
• NATO - "North Atlantic Treaty Organization."

The abbreviation WYLL plays the role of an interrogative sentence (i.e., a question), but it is commonly seen without a question mark. It can be written "WYLL?" or "WYLL."

Example of WYLL Used in a Text

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