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passwords

passwords is the plural of password.

passwords is the third-person singular simple present indicative of password.

Meaning of password

Noun

password (plural passwords)

  1. (security) A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
    • Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.
  2. A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase.
    • A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.

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Phrases with passwords

Questions about passwords

What is passwords the plural of?
Passwords is the plural of password.

Words near passwords in the dictionary

  1. passwordable
  2. passworded
  3. passwording
  4. passwordless
  5. passwordlike
  6. passwords
  7. Passy
  8. passymeasure
  9. passymeasures
  10. passé
  11. passée

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Adapted from Wiktionary: passwords (page history and authors); password (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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