Cryptogram

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Encrypted text.

    "It's a big help in solving cryptograms if you know how a cryptogram is constructed. The constructor normally uses two alphabets, one for plaintext, one for the substitute cipher letters."

  2. 2
    a piece of writing in code or cipher wordnet
  3. 3
    A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded.

    "You already know this if you are an amateur codebreaker. On the comics pages of many newspapers, you will find a little puzzle known as a cryptogram. It's usually a famous quotation that has been encrypted in a very straightforward way […]"

Etymology

From crypto- + -gram.

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