cryptology

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
2. noun The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
3. noun Secret or enigmatical language.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

cryptologic cryptological cryptologies cryptologist cryptologists