# cryptology

> English word · Noun · IPA /kɹɪpˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/ · frequency rank #93,586

## Definitions
1. The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
2. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
3. Secret or enigmatical language.

## Etymology
From crypto- + -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”); originally after Latin cryptologia, which is apparently first recorded in an English context.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cryptology