Word.ws English Dictionary

Past tense of decode

regular verb

The past tense of decode is decoded. The past participle is also decoded.

Forms of decode

Base form (V1)decode /dɪˈkəʊd/
Past tense (V2)decoded
Past participle (V3)decoded
Present participledecoding /dɪˈkəʊdɪŋ(ɡ)/
Third person singulardecodes

Decoded in a sentence

  • The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.
  • The error messages showed above seems to occur twice before the file is finally decoded!1998 July 1, RProcess (quoting Samson), “Re: Potato questions”, in alt.privacy.anon-server (Usenet). From the entry unmessupable
  • Opposed to codes that qualify, and overcodes that bring codes into a single resonance, axioms function by directly conjugating unqualified and decoded flows themselves.2012, Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry overcode
  • The second experiment develops potential neural circuits for the swimming and trotting of the salamander; an animal whose locomotor circuitry has currently not been decoded.1999, Auke Jan Ijspeert, “Synthetic Approaches to Neurobiology: Review and Case Study in the Control of Anguiliform Locomotion”, in Dario…. From the entry circuitry
  • The hash mark of rebar or the curve of a hubcap will create curious shapes to be decoded; even, perhaps, entire subway trains and lengths of tracks will remain.2020, David Farrier, “Thin Cities”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN. From the entry rebar

Meaning of decode

  1. verb To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
  2. verb To figure out something difficult to interpret.
  3. noun A product of decoding.

Full definition of decode

Questions about the past tense of decode

What is the past tense of decode?
The past tense of decode is decoded.
What is the past participle of decode?
The past participle of decode is decoded.
Is decode a regular or irregular verb?
Decode is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: decode (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Past tense of decode.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/decode. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.