secret
/ˈsiː.kɹɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""Can you keep a secret?" "Yes." "So can I.""
- "To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery"
- "Well, mistress, I am sorry this is a matter I cannot aid you in—it goes against my conscience, and it is an affair above my condition, and beyond my management;—but I will keep your secret."
- "Barla Von: Most people think I deal in finances, but my real currency is knowledge. I trade information and it has made me very wealthy. Barla Von: But the Shadow Broker is the true master. Every day, he buys and sells secrets that could topple governments, always giving them to the highest bidder."
- "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."
- "The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
secrets (plural)
secrets (present, singular)
secreting (US, participle)
secretting (UK, participle)
secreted (US, participle)
secreted (US, past)
secretted (UK, participle)
secretted (UK, past)
more secret (comparative)
most secret (superlative)
secrette (alternative, obsolete)
secrete (alternative, obsolete)
Derived Forms
nonsecret
pseudosecret
secretist
secretmonger
subsecret
supersecret
secrete
secretive
secretly
secretness
semisecretsupersecret
ultrasecret