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cryptogramme

cryptogramme is the rare spelling of cryptogram.

Meaning of cryptogram

Noun

cryptogram (plural cryptograms)

  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.1981, Norma Gleason, Cryptograms and Spygrams, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 7
  2. 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 […]2007, Charles Seife, Decoding the Universe, Penguin, →ISBN

Forms of cryptogramme

pluralcryptogrammes

Origin of cryptogramme

From crypto- + -gramme.

Questions about cryptogramme

What is cryptogramme the rare spelling of?
Cryptogramme is the rare spelling of cryptogram.

Words near cryptogramme in the dictionary

  1. cryptogrammatic
  2. cryptogrammatical
  3. cryptogrammatically
  4. cryptogrammatist
  5. cryptogrammatists
  6. cryptogramme
  7. cryptogrammes
  8. cryptogrammic
  9. cryptogrammist
  10. cryptogrammists
  11. cryptograms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cryptogramme (page history and authors); cryptogram (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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