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keystore

noun

keystore is a noun meaning “A storage area for cryptographic keys” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-E-Y-S-T-O-R-E, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of keystore is keystores.

What does keystore mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A storage area for cryptographic keys.

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

Forms of keystore

  • keystores plural

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

How common is keystore?

Keystore appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

Keystore in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense storage area:

LanguageWords
Frenchkeystore

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does keystore come from?

From key + store.

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