Code
/kəʊd/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:7 ptsWWF:8 pts4 letters
Definition of Code
noun
- A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
"This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9."
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
"The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians."
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
verb
- To write software programs.
"I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s."
- To add codes to a dataset.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- To encode.
"We should code the messages we send out on Usenet."
- To encode a protein.
Anagrams of Code
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6 words can be made from the letters in "code":