Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
Related words
- Word family
- encrypt
Forms
- Plural
- encryptions → encodings…
Example sentences
- encoding The “Book of Changes” presents the oldest binary encoding.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| encryption | rising | |
| encoding | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- encoding3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (encoding3 = 3 syllables).