Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

obfuscator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ob-fus-ca-tor
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.

noun

A software program that modifies another program to make it harder to decompile or reverse-engineer.

Etymology

From obfuscate + -or.

Inflected Forms

obfuscators (plural)

Questions

What does obfuscator mean?: Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
Where does obfuscator come from?: From obfuscate + -or.

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