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Is cipher a Scrabble word?

Yes, cipher is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of cipher?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.Examples: "a public-key cipher"

2. A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:Examples: "The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros."

3. (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.

4. (music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.Examples: "They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo"slang

5. (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.Examples: "As the night seemed darker, cops is on a hunt / They interrupt your cipher, and crush your blunt"Synonyms: rotationslang

6. (dated) Zero.Examples: "O pardon: ſince a crooked Figure may / Atteſt in little place a Million, / And let vs, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke."; "Firſt, Find what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher, and half the Number is the Decimal of a Pound. The Number with a Cypher preponed is .0625, ½ is .03125."; "We saw earlier about this new symbol, the cipher, that can make numbers big."dated

verb (English)

1. (intransitive, regional, dated) To calculate.Examples: "I never learned much more than how to read and cipher."; "For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up."; "So I must baffle at the hint / And cipher at the sign, / And make much blunder, if at last / I take the clew divine."datedintransitiveregional

2. (intransitive) To write in code or cipher.intransitive

3. (intransitive, music) Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.intransitive

4. (obsolete) To decipher.Examples: "Yea the illiterate that know not how To cipher what is writ in learned bookes, VVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes."obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "cipher"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "cipher"?

Scrabble
13 points
C3
I1
P3
H4
E1
R1
Words With Friends
14 points
C4
I1
P4
H3
E1
R1

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