"cypher" is a correct word and it is used in written English.
It is usually used to denote someone or something that is mysterious or difficult to understand. Example: "Her writing style was hard to cypher."
The slatternly, drunken woman is a cypher for Mother's Ruin, contemporary slang for gin.
He also belittles the much younger Juan Jose Ibarretxe, head of the Basques' regional government, as a mere cypher, instead of building him up—as many advised Mr Aznar to do—as a more flexible figure with whom he might profitably do business.
The Americans, who had stripped the country of its military power and made the emperor a cypher, also seemed to have drained away the national will.
He is little more than a cypher.
When hip-hop artists stand in a circle and rap it's called a cypher," says Mobo award-winning artist Akala, who will be part of two events at the British Library this evening; a one-off language-based panel discussion, Voices of Hip-Hop and Late at the Library.
The discovery of 31 year old Mr Williams' body, in a North Face holdall, in the en-suite bath of his flat in Alderney Street, Pimlico, south west London, due to his profession as an intelligence cypher expert had resulted in international interest and speculation about what happened.
Working in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, then the home of GCHQ's forerunner, the Government Code and Cypher School, Turing found a way of reading messages sent by the Germans, using a codebreaking machine called the bombe.
The British government acquired it in 1938 and made it a station of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), designated as Station X.
During World War II, Turing was a leading cryptanalyst at the Government Code and Cypher School in Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England.
Soon Etheridge's relationship with film director Julie Cypher became a matter of public record.
In a recent essay for Salon, the freelance editor Sarah Cypher reported that she had worked on an early version of the book before Beck became involved, and she wasn't pleased that "a year and a few lawyers later," he had "purchased the right to call himself its creator".
