Definitions for deciphers

deciphers de·ci·pher

Spelling: [dih-sahy-fer]
IPA: /dɪˈsaɪ fər/

Deciphers is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 463 anagrams from letters in deciphers (cdeehiprs).

Definitions for deciphers

verb (used with object)

  1. to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.):
  2. to discover the meaning of (anything obscure or difficult to trace or understand):
  3. to interpret by the use of a key, as something written in cipher:
  4. Obsolete. to depict; portray.

Origin of deciphers

1520-30; translation of Middle French déchiffrer. See de-, cipher

Examples for deciphers

After a brief exchange to decipher why Smith, Alencar, and Mousa wanted to go to Syria, the journalists told them to go home.

For those few months it may have appeared quite simple to decipher the good from the bad.

There is not a living eye that could now decipher these memorials.

To decipher the message, a special code-book or dictionary would be required.

Many others are so defaced that it is impossible to decipher them.

The duchess sat at a replica radio to hear, learn about, and decipher morse code.

Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet.

I never owned a copy but I knew people who did, and we spent hours in dorm rooms trying to decipher what was on it.

It was beyond the capacity of any human cryptologist to decipher the signals.

And still he dreaded the approach of the day when he should decipher its awful meaning.

Word Value for deciphers
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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