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CYPHERS

"CYPHERS" is a plural of: cypher.

Date "CYPHERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Commercial Usage: CYPHERS

DomainTitle

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: CYPHERS

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

.00001 The value of a unit with four cyphers going before it. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: CYPHERS

"CYPHERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "CYPHERS" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)85.71%12101,599
Lexical Verb (-s form)7.14%1339,140
Noun (proper)7.14%1339,140
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: CYPHERS

The following table summarizes the usage of "CYPHERS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CyphersLast name1,00014,660
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: CYPHERS

Expression using "CYPHERS": undecypherable class of cyphers. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CYPHERS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cyphers

5

cyphers dream evil louis

3

harvey l cyphers

2

code cyphers

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CYPHERS

Language Translations for "CYPHERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

ubrydelige kryptograferingsprincipper (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references)

   

French

  

catégorie de chiffres indéchiffrables (undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references)

   

German

  

Klasse unbrechbarer Chiffren (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κλάση απαραβίαστων κρυπτογραφημάτων (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ypherscay

   

Portuguese

  

categoria de cifras indecifráveis (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

categoría de cifradores indescifrables (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oforcerbara krypteringssystem (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CYPHERS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CYPHERS" (pronounced sī"ferz)
4-ī" f er zheifers, lifers.
3-f er zaquifers, biographers, briefers, buffers, choreographers, coffers, conifers, counteroffers, demographers, differs, golfers, gophers, loafers, offers, philosophers, photographers, pornographers, roofers, staffers, suffers, surfers, syphers, wafers.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CYPHERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-p-r-s-y"

-1 letter: cypher, cypres, psyche, sphery, sypher.

-2 letters: crepy, hyper, hypes, pechs, perch, preys, psych, pyres, shyer, yechs.

-3 letters: ceps, espy, hers, hype, hyps, pech, pecs, pehs, prey, pyes, pyre, recs, reps, resh, ryes, scry, spec, spry, syce, syph, yech.

-4 letters: cep, cry, ers, hep, her, hes, hey, hyp, pec, peh, per, pes, pry, pye, rec.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-p-r-s-y"
 

+2 letters: coryphees.

 

+3 letters: archetypes, coryphaeus, hydrospace, hypercubes, hypersonic, hyperspace, hypocrites, pachyderms, phenocryst, sphericity.

 

+4 letters: chrysophyte, chrysoprase, copyholders, hydrospaces, hypermnesic, hyperspaces, hyperstatic, hypocenters, hypocrisies, hypodermics, hypsometric, keypunchers, macrophytes, parenchymas, phenocrysts, polychromes, psychometry, scenography, spherically, viceroyship.

 

+5 letters: chrysophytes, chrysoprases, hydrospheric, hyperactives, hypercapnias, hypercharges, hypercritics, hyperostotic, hyperplastic, hypersthenic, hypersurface, interpsychic, lycanthropes, phenocrystic, phylacteries, phytochromes, polychromies, psychiatries, psychometric, psychrometer, psychrometry, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, sepulchrally, seraphically, synchroscope, viceroyships.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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