Definitions for cypher

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cypher cy·pher

Spelling: [sahy-fer]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ fər/

Cypher is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in cypher (cehpry).

Definitions for cypher

noun

1. zero.
2. any of the Arabic numerals or figures.
3. Arabic numerical notation collectively.
4. something of no value or importance.
5. a person of no influence; nonentity.
6. a secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like. Compare cryptography.
7. writing done by such a method; a coded message.
8. the key to a secret method of writing.
9. a combination of letters, as the initials of a name, in one design; monogram.

verb (used with object)

1. to calculate numerically; figure.
2. to convert into cipher.

verb (used without object)

1. to use figures or numerals arithmetically.
2. to write in or as in cipher.

noun, verb (used with or without object)

1. cipher.

Origin of cypher

1350-1400; Middle English siphre Medieval Latin ciphra Arabic ṣifr empty, zero; translation of Sanskrit śūnyā empty

Examples for cypher

We had confidence in cypher's sullenness and smouldering ferocity.

I gave it up at last and came on here to send a cypher telegram to my friend.'

When we had money, cypher got it "off of" us, as he expressed it.

I have no cypher from Mr Morris and have seen none from him.

I did not know there was such a thing as a cypher that could not be solved.'

It will be better, however, to make a copy in cypher, and to burn the original.

It took him some time to concoct his telegram, and put it into cypher.

The paper shook in Juve's hands as his eyes devoured the message: it was in cypher.

He plays Commander Alastair Denniston, head of the Government Code and cypher School (GCCS) at Bletchley Park during World War II.

He had created a kind of cypher, without any obvious hierarchy of order.