14344

What Does 14344 Mean in a Text?

Expressing Love in a Text

There are over 100 novel ways to express love in a text message. Some of them were invented by the iKids (i.e., Millennials, Generation Z, and Generation A), making them just a few decades old, but many of them have been around for centuries. Here's the one that matters to you: 14344 means "I Love You Very Much."

More Observations...

In other words, it is a cute declaration of love. In the number 14344, each number represents the number of letters in each word of the phrase "I love you very much." Like this:

I (1 letter)
Love (4 letters)
You (3 letters)
Very (4 letters)
Much (4 letters)

When numbers are used in this way, they are known as "numeronyms."

When Should You Use 14344?

As with the other abbreviations meaning "I love you," 14344 can be interpreted as less sincere than actually saying or typing those "three magic words!" For example:

Toni: 14344.
Jordan: If you really loved me, you would just say it.

Lee: You are so special to me. 14344.
Sam: What have you done wrong now?

What Other Slang Terms Say "I Love You"?

As a rule, abbreviations that say I love you are easy to work out. For example, ILYVM means "I love you very much" and ILU means "I love you." Numeronyms are much harder to guess. Many of the love-related numeronyms are based on 143 ("I love you"). Others include:

1432 (I love you too).
143 637 (I love you always and forever).
1437 (I love you forever).
14643 (I will always love you).

This is just a sample of clever ways to express love and how to use numeronyms in slang. Here are hundreds of other ways:

14344 adds emphasis to a declaration of love (or avoids having to make one!).

Video Summarizing 14344

Here's a short video explaining how to use 14344:

Summary of Key Points

We have summarized the key points in the table below:

14344
Definition:	I Love You Very Much (number of letters in each word)
Type:	Internet Slang Term
Guessability:	4: Difficult to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

An Academic Look at 14344

14344 is a numeronym, which is an abbreviation made up of just numbers or of letters and numbers. Numeronyms can be formed in various ways, such as:

Shortening a word by replacing a sequence of letters with the count of those letters (e.g., i18n for "internationalization" and a11y for "accessibility").
Combining letters and numbers (e.g, K9 for "canine" and W3 for "World Wide Web").
Using numbers to represent letters or words (e.g., 143 for "I love you," 637 for "always and forever," and 5201314 for "I will love you for a lifetime").

Numeronyms were used long before the digital era. Many of the early ones were written on the envelopes of letters between lovers. They were often a coded message between the sender and the recipient, thought to allow secret expressions of love or passion.