Backronym

Backronym, also bacronym, is a word which is used as an acronym for certain phrase, and hence the name. In backronym, we have the word (backronym) first and then the phrase according to the letters of the backronym.

For example - A nine year old boy named AMBER was abducted and murdered in the United States in 1996. The word AMBER was used as backronym for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response", and was popularized as a programme called AMBER alert.