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passkey

passkey noun: a key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door.

Noun

passkey (plural passkeys)

  1. A key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door.
    • With the universal pass-key of imagination we open the dingy door, pass down a dark passage and up a narrow stair.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
    • Jourdain stood by with a quiet sad smile, holding his passkey in his hand, and giving me time to take it all in.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 23
  2. A key for entering a house or other building.
    • Now, Balmy, here's the passkey to that house. The windows are wired, but the front door isn't. Get inside that door as quietly as you can, and find out as much as you can.1917, Hearst's, volume 32, page 293
  3. (especially) A cryptographic key that is tied to specific devices or cloud accounts and is meant to be used instead of a password.
    • Based on FIDO standards, passkeys are a replacement for passwords that provide faster, easier, and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across a user's devices. Unlike passwords, passkeys are always strong and phishing-resistant. Passkeys simplify account registration for apps and websites...2023, FIDO Alliance, “Passkeys: accelerating the availability of simpler, stronger passwordless sign-ins”, in FIDO Alliance, retrieved 03 May 2023
    • Sign in with passkeys on iPhone / Passkeys give you a simple and secure way to sign in without passwords by relying on Face ID (supported models) or Touch ID (supported models) to identify you when you sign in to supporting websites and apps. / Intro to passkeys / Based on industry standards for...2023, Apple Inc., iPhone User Guide, retrieved 03 May 2023, iOS 16
  4. (dated) Synonym of password.
    • The router then generates a random numeric passkey and delivers it to the user […]2007, Harold F Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook
    Synonyms:
    password

passkey meaning in Malayalam

passkey in Malayalam

സൂത്രച്ചാവി, പല താഴുകൾ തുറക്കാവുന്ന താക്കോൽ

Examples of passkey in a sentence

  • Based on FIDO standards, passkeys are a replacement for passwords that provide faster, easier, and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across a user's devices.2023, FIDO Alliance, “Passkeys: accelerating the availability of simpler, stronger passwordless sign-ins”, in FIDO Alliance, retrieved 03...
  • A passkey is a cryptographic entity that's not visible to you, and it's used in place of a password.2023, Apple Inc., iPhone User Guide, retrieved 03 May 2023, iOS 16:
  • Google is starting to nudge users to try out passkeys, a replacement for traditional passwords that can stop phishing attacks and make sign-ins easier.2023 May 3, Michael Kan, “Go passwordless: Google accounts now support passkey sign-ins”, in PCMag, retrieved 03 May 2023:
  • The NCSC said this week it would no longer recommend using passwords where passkeys were available.2026 April 24, Dan Milmo, “What is a passkey, how does it work and why is it better than a password?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Synonyms of passkey

Forms of passkey

pluralpasskeys

Origin of passkey

From pass + key.

Questions about passkey

What does passkey mean?
Passkey means a key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door.
What is passkey in Malayalam?
Passkey in Malayalam is സൂത്രച്ചാവി, പല താഴുകൾ തുറക്കാവുന്ന താക്കോൽ. See Passkey meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use passkey in a sentence?
Based on FIDO standards, passkeys are a replacement for passwords that provide faster, easier, and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across a user's devices.
What part of speech is passkey?
Passkey is a noun.
What is the plural of passkey?
The plural of passkey is passkeys.

Words near passkey in the dictionary

  1. passivized
  2. passivizer
  3. passivizers
  4. passivizes
  5. passivizing
  6. passkey
  7. passkeys
  8. passless
  9. passman
  10. Passmans
  11. passmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: passkey (page history and authors); passkey (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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