Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ssh

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English

Syllables: ssh
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

intj

Be quiet or reduce the volume.

verb

Synonym of shush.

name

A program and protocol for securely logging in to and running programs on remote machines across a network, with encryption to protect the transferred information and authentication to ensure that the remote machine is the one desired.

verb

To use ssh to connect to a remote computer.

name

Initialism of Secure Shell, a networking protocol by which two computers are connected via a secure channel.

name

Abbreviation of South Superhighway (former name of SLEX).

name

Social sciences and Humanities.

Etymology

Abbreviation of secure shell.

Inflected Forms

sshes (present, singular) sshing (participle, present) sshed (participle, past) sshed (past)

Synonyms

shush

Questions

What does ssh mean?: Be quiet or reduce the volume.
Where does ssh come from?: Abbreviation of secure shell.

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