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codebook

noun

codebook is spelled C-O-D-E-B-O-O-K: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, codebook means “A book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of codebook is codebooks.

How many letters and syllables are in codebook?

Letters8: C-O-D-E-B-O-O-K
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is codebook?

Codebook appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce codebook?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-codebook.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of codebook

  • codebooks plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does codebook mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code.

  2. 2

    A lookup table.

  3. 3

    A list of disorders or conditions and the codes that represent them.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does codebook come from?

From code + book.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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