decryption

1. 1.

   the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text

   “a secret key or password is required for decryption”

   Synonymsdecodingdecipherment

   Broadercryptography

   Narrowerdecompression

Other forms of decryption

plural

decryptions·

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 decryption

What does decryption mean?

decryption means "the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text".

How many syllables are in decryption?

decryption has 4 syllables: de-cryp-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for decryption?

Close synonyms include decoding, decipherment. 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 decryption a common word?

decryption 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.