scrambled letters

Mixed-up character sequence

Scrambled letters are the letters of a word or phrase rearranged into a different, usually meaningless order.

Word puzzles present scrambled letters for solvers to unscramble: Can you figure out what word these scrambled letters spell?

The term also describes any jumbled or disordered text.

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legibility/meaning

scrambled lettersplain text

Unencoded readable characters

order/legibility

scrambled lettersalphabetical order

Arrangement by first letters

clear writing

intelligibility/meaning

scrambled lettersplain language

Easily understood communication

sense · solution

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