Definitions for encrypt

encrypt en·crypt

Spelling: [en-kript]
IPA: /ɛnˈkrɪpt/

Encrypt is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in encrypt (cenprty).

Definitions for encrypt

verb (used with object)

  1. to encipher or encode.

Origin of encrypt

1940-45; en-1 + -crypt (abstracted from cryptic, cryptography, etc.), modeled on encode

Examples for encrypt

If the government really wants to stop WikiLeaks, it can encrypt its cables.

That refers to software that can encrypt chat communications, emails, and more.

So instead of just encrypting the message with your private key, you also encrypt it with your boss's public key.

There are often steps taken by hackers to use sophisticated mathematical formulas to encrypt their communications.

You'd encrypt the message with your private key and my public key.

Word Value for encrypt
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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