Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1transitive verb
To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To stamp; to detect; to discover.
- 4verb
read with difficulty
"Can you decipher this letter?"
"The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
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- 5verb
convert code into ordinary language
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