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decipherments

decipherments is the plural of decipherment.

Meaning of decipherment

Noun

decipherment (countable and uncountable, plural decipherments)

  1. The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
  2. Decryption.

Questions about decipherments

What is decipherments the plural of?
Decipherments is the plural of decipherment.

Words near decipherments in the dictionary

  1. decipheress
  2. decipheresses
  3. deciphering
  4. decipherings
  5. decipherment
  6. decipherments
  7. deciphers
  8. decipiency
  9. decipium
  10. decipol
  11. decipols

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decipherments (page history and authors); decipherment (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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