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two-factor authentication

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables
two--fac-tor au-then-ti-ca-tion
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
8
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An identity and access management security method in which users provide two different authentication factors to verify themselves: first the user's password and then a (randomly generated and frequently changing) code generated by an app.

Uncountable

Usage

Synonyms

2FA

Questions

What does two-factor authentication mean?
An identity and access management security method in which users provide two different authentication factors to verify themselves: first the user's password and then a (randomly generated and frequently changing) code generated by an app.

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