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What is the correct spelling for cypher?


Asked by Dalton Bowen on Dec 01, 2021 FAQ



The word above " Cipher " is the correct spelling for the word. It is very easy to misspell a word like Cipher, therefore you can use TellSpell as a spell checker.
Just so,
Therefore, "cypher" is not the British spelling variant of "cipher" in the same way as "colour" vs "color" etc. Thus the usual stipulations of treating national variations do not apply ( Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Usage_and_spelling)
Besides, ‘The first cipher broken was Serpent: the cipher universally considered to be the safest, most conservative choice.’ ‘British agents broke into the Spanish Embassy in Washington and stole the keys to their ciphers, enabling Bletchley Park to crack the Spanish codes.’
And,
The monoalphabetic substitution cipher is one of the most popular ciphers among puzzle makers. Each letter is substituted by another letter in the alphabet. If it contains word boundaries (spaces and punctuation), it is called an Aristocrat.
In fact,
The two-square cipher is also called "double Playfair". It is stronger than an ordinary Playfair cipher, but still easier to use than the four-square cipher.