decode
/dɪˈkəʊd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
verb
To figure out something difficult to interpret.
Example Sentences
- "The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer."
- "I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription."
- "If and when the remaining Allied intercepts and decodes are opened up, we may expect to learn a great deal more about the later stages of the Holocaust."
- "The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks."
- "Decodes stating that Hollandia airfields were becoming overcrowded with IJA aircraft waiting to stage forward to Wewak led to pre-emptive strikes by Allied air forces and the destruction of more than 300 Japanese aircraft on the ground."
- "He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Latin caudex Latin cōdex Old French codebor. Middle English code English code English decode From de- + code.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪˈkəʊd/