How To Spell Decipher Or Decipher

We must take into account when writing that we must do so without spelling mistakes, writing each word as it is, and not how colloquially they can be said (although they are also misspelled).

Spelling errors damage the image that we want to convey with our text and our message, so we must be cautious and always correct our texts before delivering it to the person who should.

If you’re not sure how to spell a word, don’t put the way you think is correct, instead take a moment to look it up in the dictionary and spell it correctly. I do not advise you to leave it “for later”, since you could forget it, and in the review you also did not realize the fact that this word caused you doubts.

To help you, here we are going to show you how to spell decrypt or decipher correctly.

Decipher

If we look for the word decipher in the dictionary, we see that we can’t find it, and this is because it is misspelled. The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language does not recognize this way of writing the word decipher, so using it would be making a complete misspelling.

Decipher

As you can already guess, decipher is the correct way to write this word, that’s how we find it in the dictionary, and according to the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language we can obtain two definitions of the word decipher:

  1. Being able to interpret or understand the hidden message under a secret language or code made up of combinations of letters, numbers and/or signs.
  2. Understand an issue, a thing or a confusing or difficult situation.

Decipher is a transitive verb of the first conjugation, whose impersonal forms are:

Infinitive: to decipher

Example: Whoever manages to decipher the problem will earn an extra point.

Participle : deciphered

Example: Manuel has not cracked the riddle I sent him.

Gerund: deciphering

Example: You will only reach the secret place by deciphering the map that I have given you.

Examples:

He was the last to figure out the problem

The archaeologist deciphered the hieroglyph.

Deciphering my doctor’s handwriting took me a long time.

The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language does not establish any rules of use for those words that include the SC. These words must therefore be known by heart.

Synonyms of decipher

Sometimes it will be very useful for you to know several synonyms (words that can be used alternately in the same context and maintaining the same meaning), so as not to repeat the same word too many times and not tire your interlocutor, whether speaking or writing.  Taking into account several meanings of the word, decipher its synonyms are:

  1. In the sense of reading or interpreting something: interpret, read.
  2. In the sense of unraveling: penetrate, elucidate, elucidate, understand, comprehend, unravel.
  3. In the sense of decoding: decoding

Examples:

They managed to decode the key on the third try.

They managed to read the key on the third try

They managed to unravel the key on the third try

They managed to understand the key on the third try.

Antonyms of the word decipher

On the other hand we have the antonymous words to the word decipher, that is, the words that exist and are considered to have the opposite meaning to that of the verb decipher. Its antonyms and pseudo antonyms are:

  • Misguide
  • Dude
  • Entangle
  • Ignore
  • Disengage
  • Unknow

How to write the word decipher in other languages:

In case you are curious, we are going to tell you how to say decipher in other languages:

  • In Portuguese: decipher, soletrar
  • In English: decode, figure out
  • In French: décoder, déchiffrer

With these guidelines and clarifications, now you finally know how to spell decipher or decipher, so use the correct form in your future writings and don’t make any more spelling mistakes in relation to the word decipher.

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