secret writing

Questions about secret writing

What does secret writing mean?

secret writing means "a piece of writing in code or cipher". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for secret writing?

Close synonyms include cryptogram, cryptograph, cryptography, coding, steganography. 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 writing a common word?

secret writing 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.