decipher

decipher is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
2. transitive verb. To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.
3. transitive verb. To stamp; to detect; to discover.
4. verb. read with difficulty

   "Can you decipher this letter?"

   "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

   Synonyms: trace

5. verb. convert code into ordinary language

   Synonyms: decode, decrypt

Synonyms

trace, decode, decrypt

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in decipher:

ciphered

Common word forms

deciphers, deciphered, decipherer, deciphering, decipherable, decipherment

Words from these letters

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