Noun: password
| Singular | password |
| Plural | passwords |
Sample Sentences
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Only if a would-be visitor knew the password du jour could he pass; the guards allowed no exceptions.
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Now, Max, by what combination of circumstances is a rogue to know my password, to be able to forge my signature, to possess himself of my key, and to resemble me personally? And, finally, how is he possibly to determine beforehand whether there is anything in my safe to repay so elaborate a plant? [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]
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A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
Nouns inflected like password
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From pass + word. The sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.
Verbs referencing "password"
Danish Nouns
password, Italian Nouns
password, German Nouns
Passwort, Dutch Nouns
paswoord, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
passord, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
passord, Finnish Nouns
passu.