First, researchers compiled a list of nearly 170 popular acronyms and initialisms across five different categories: dating, gaming, business, technology, and U.S. state abbreviations. They then ranked them based on the average monthly search volume for that term plus the word meaning (or, for U.S. states, the question “What state is [abbreviation]”). You can definitely argue that these ambiguities support that MVP, ASL, and other multifaceted abbreviations belong on a list of the most confusing ones—but this particular ranking wasn’t based on the number of phrases a single abbreviation stands for, nor the number of contexts in which you can use it.