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Decypher vs Decrypt - What's the difference?

decypher | decrypt |

As verbs the difference between decypher and decrypt

is that decypher is an alternative spelling of lang=en while decrypt is to convert an encrypted or coded text or message into plain text.

As nouns the difference between decypher and decrypt

is that decypher is an alternative spelling of lang=en while decrypt is a decoded communication.

decypher

English

Verb

(en verb)

    • Derived terms

    * decyphered

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • decrypt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To convert an encrypted or coded text or message into plain text.

    • Antonyms

    * encrypt

    Related terms

    * decipher

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A decoded communication.
  • * 1979 , Francis Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War (page 182)
    • The decrypts were being obtained from the traffic of 78 German stations by the end of 1941, and of 147 stations by the end of 1942.