decipher

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• UK: /dɪˈsaɪfə(ɹ)/
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• rhymes with -aɪfə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S AY1 F ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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As decypher, but not retaining the y from the Old French etyma of cipher (cyfre, cyffre); the i spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being consistent with its cognates, the French déchiffrer and the Italian decifrare, and with their common ancestor, the Medieval Latin cifra, cifera, ciphra. By surface analysis, de- + cipher.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فَكَّ تَّعْمِيَة (fakka taʕmiya) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Arabic: فَكَّ مُعَمَّى (fakka muʕammā) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Arabic: فَكَّ شِّيفْرَة (fakka šīfra) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Azerbaijani: şifrini açmaq — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Bulgarian: дешифрирам (dešifriram) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Catalan: desxifrar — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Chinese Mandarin: 解碼 /解码 (jiěmǎ) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Chinese Mandarin: 解讀 /解读 (jiědú) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Czech: rozluštit — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Danish: dechifrere — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Danish: afkode — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Dutch: ontcijferen — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Esperanto: malĉifri — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Finnish: purkaa — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Finnish: murtaa — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Finnish: avata (viesti) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• French: déchiffrer — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• German: dechiffrieren — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• German: entschlüsseln — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Greek: αποκρυπτογραφώ (apokryptografó) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Hebrew: פענח (pi'néakh) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Icelandic: dulráða — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Japanese: 解読する (kaidoku suru) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Kazakh: дешифрлеу (deşifrleu) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Korean: 해독(解讀)하다 (haedokhada) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Luxembourgish: dechiffréieren — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Polish: rozszyfrowywać — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Polish: rozszyfrować — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Portuguese: decifrar — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Russian: расшифро́вывать (rasšifróvyvatʹ) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Russian: расшифрова́ть (rasšifrovátʹ) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Spanish: descifrar — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Spanish: decodificar — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Swedish: dechiffrera — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Swedish: avkoda — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Swedish: dekryptera — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Swedish: läsa — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Swedish: tyda — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Turkish: deşifre etmek — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Ukrainian: розшифро́вувати (rozšyfróvuvaty) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Ukrainian: розшифрува́ти (rozšyfruváty) — to decode or decrypt a code or cipher
• Bulgarian: разчитам (razčitam) — to read illegible or obscure text
• Catalan: desxifrar — to read illegible or obscure text
• Finnish: tavata — to read illegible or obscure text
• German: entziffern — to read illegible or obscure text
• Greek: αποκρυπτογραφώ (apokryptografó) — to read illegible or obscure text
• Polish: rozszyfrowywać — to read illegible or obscure text
• Polish: rozszyfrować — to read illegible or obscure text
• Russian: разбирать — to read illegible or obscure text
• Spanish: descifrar — to read illegible or obscure text
• Spanish: interpretar — to read illegible or obscure text
• Swedish: läsa — to read illegible or obscure text
• Swedish: tyda — to read illegible or obscure text
• Swedish: dechiffrera — to read illegible or obscure text
• Ottoman Turkish: اوقومق (okumak) — to read illegible or obscure text
• Finnish: ratkaista — to find a solution
• German: entschlüsseln — to find a solution
• Portuguese: decifrar — to find a solution
• Portuguese: resolver — to find a solution
• Spanish: resolver — to find a solution
• Spanish: descifrar — to find a solution