Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polyalphabetic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: polyal-pha-bet-ic
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English alphabetic English polyalphabetic From poly- + alphabetic.

Derived Forms

polyalphabetically

Questions

What does polyalphabetic mean?: Describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.
Where does polyalphabetic come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English alphabetic English polyalphabetic From poly- + alphabetic.

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