decipherable

Able to interpret

Decipherable means capable of being decoded or made sense of.

Something decipherable can be read despite difficulty—messy handwriting that's still decipherable, an encrypted message that proves decipherable with the right key.

The word often appears in the negative: His notes were barely decipherable.

What's decipherable yields its meaning to effort; what's indecipherable resists all attempts.

readable

legible

Able to be read

readableEasy to understand
handwritingManual letter formation
scriptWritten words for performance

print · typeface · font · calligraphy · manuscript · inscription · typography · cursive · lettering · characters

comprehensible

understandable

Able to be grasped

intelligibleCapable of being understood
comprehensibleAble to be understood
graspableAble to be held

fathomable · accessible · coherent · interpretable · meaningful · discernible · penetrable · translatable · parsable · explicable

solvable

code

Symbolic communication system

cryptogramCoded message puzzle
puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
enigmaSomething hard to fathom

riddle · mystery · encrypted · encoded · scrambled · algorithm · key · clue · cryptanalysis · codebreaking

decipherable

legible

understandable

code

decipherable

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