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"CYPHERS" is a plural of: cypher. |
Date "CYPHERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Periodicals |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 85.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cyphers | Last name | 1,000 | 14,660 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "CYPHERS": undecypherable class of cyphers. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 categoria de cifras indecifráveis (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references) categoría de cifradores indescifrables (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references) oforcerbara krypteringssystem (undecipherable class of ciphers, undecypherable class of cyphers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CYPHERS" (pronounced sī"ferz) |
| 4 | -ī" f er z | heifers, lifers. |
| 3 | -f er z | aquifers, 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. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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