Word.ws English Dictionary

mixed alphabet

mixed alphabet noun: the mapping from plaintext to ciphertext characters in a substitution cipher, when it is not merely a shift or reversal but an arbitrary reordering.

Noun

mixed alphabet (plural mixed alphabets)

  1. The mapping from plaintext to ciphertext characters in a substitution cipher, when it is not merely a shift or reversal but an arbitrary reordering.

Forms of mixed alphabet

pluralmixed alphabets

Questions about mixed alphabet

What does mixed alphabet mean?
Mixed alphabet means the mapping from plaintext to ciphertext characters in a substitution cipher, when it is not merely a shift or reversal but an arbitrary reordering.
What part of speech is mixed alphabet?
Mixed alphabet is a noun.
What is the plural of mixed alphabet?
The plural of mixed alphabet is mixed alphabets.

Words near mixed alphabet in the dictionary

  1. mixdowns
  2. mixe
  3. Mixe-Zoque
  4. Mixean
  5. mixed
  6. mixed alphabet
  7. mixed alphabets
  8. mixed apples and oranges
  9. mixed astigmatism
  10. mixed bag
  11. mixed bags

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mixed alphabet (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mixed alphabet.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mixed_alphabet. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.