cipher

cipher is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
2. noun. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
3. noun. A character in general, as a figure or letter.
4. noun. A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
5. noun. A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
6. adjective. Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
7. intransitive verb. To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
8. transitive verb. To write in occult characters.
9. transitive verb. To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
10. transitive verb. To decipher.
11. transitive verb. To designate by characters.
12. noun. a message written in a secret code

    Synonyms: cypher

13. noun. a secret method of writing

    Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher

14. noun. a person of no influence

    Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity

15. noun. a quantity of no importance

    "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"

    "reduced to nil all the work we had done"

    Synonyms: aught, cypher, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo

16. noun. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

    Synonyms: cypher, nought, zero

17. verb. make a mathematical calculation or computation

    Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon

18. verb. convert ordinary language into code

    "We should encode the message for security reasons"

    Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe

Synonyms

cypher, cryptograph, nobody, nonentity, aught, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, nought, calculate, compute, figure, reckon, code, encipher, encrypt, inscribe

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cipher:

ceriph, rechip

Common word forms

ciphers, ciphered, cipherer, ciphering, cipherable

Words from these letters

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