secret code

1. 1.

   a secret method of writing

   Synonymsciphercyphercryptograph

   Broadercode

Questions about secret code

What does secret code mean?

secret code means "a secret method of writing".

What is another word for secret code?

Close synonyms include cipher, cypher, cryptograph. 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 secret code a common word?

secret code is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.