decipherer

1. 1.

   the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text

   Synonymsdecoder

   Broaderintellectual

   Narrowercryptanalyst
2. 2.

   a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text

   Broaderreader

Other forms of decipherer

plural

decipherers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about decipherer

What does decipherer mean?

decipherer means "the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decipherer?

decipherer has 4 syllables: de-ci-phe-rer. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for decipherer?

Close synonyms include decoder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is decipherer a common word?

decipherer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.