password

English

Etymology

pass +‎ word

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæswɜːɹd/
• (Southern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːswɜː(ɹ)d/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈpæswɜːd/
• Hyphenation: pass‧word

Alternative forms

• pass-word (archaic)

Noun

password (plural passwords)

1. A word used to gain admittance or to gain access to information; watchword.
2. (computing) A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, etc.

   A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.

Synonyms

• (word used to gain admittance): watchword
• passcode
• (abbreviation): pw, pwd, pword, pass

Derived terms

• (computing): password salting, what is the Wi-Fi password

Translations

word used to gain admittance

• Afrikaans: wagwoord
• Albanian: fjalëkalim m, parullë (sq) f
• Arabic: كَلِمَةُ السِّرّ‎ f (kalimatu s-sirr), كَلِمَةُ مُرُور‎ f (kalimatu murūr)
• Armenian: գաղտնաբառ (hy) (gałtnabaṙ)
• Azerbaijani: parol
• Belarusian: паро́ль m (parólʹ)
• Bengali: পাসওয়ার্ড (paśôẇarḍ)
• Bulgarian: паро́ла (bg) f (paróla)
• Burmese: စကားဝှက် (my) (ca.ka:hwak)
• Catalan: contrasenya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密碼 (zh), 密码 (zh) (mìmǎ), 口令 (zh) (kǒulìng)

• Czech: heslo (cs) n
• Danish: kodeord n, løsen n, feltråb n
• Dutch: wachtwoord (nl) n
• Estonian: salasõna, parool
• Finnish: salasana (fi), tunnussana (fi)
• French: mot de passe (fr) m
• Galician: contrasinal m
• Georgian: პაროლი (ṗaroli)
• German: Codewort (de) m, Passwort (de) n, Parole (de) f, Kennwort (de) n
• Greek: συνθηματικό (el) n (synthimatikó), κωδικός (el) m (kodikós)

  Ancient: σύνθημα n (súnthēma)

• Hebrew: סִסְמָה‎ (he) f (sisma)
• Hindi: पासवर्ड m (pāsvarḍ)
• Hungarian: jelszó (hu)
• Icelandic: lykilorð n
• Indonesian: kata sandi
• Irish: focal faire m, pasfhocal m
• Italian: parola d'ordine (it) f, parola chiave f
• Japanese: パスワード (ja) (pasuwādo), 合い言葉 (あいことば, aikotoba)
• Kazakh: құпиясөз (qupïyasöz)
• Khmer: ការពាក្យសម្ងាត់ (kaa piek sɑmŋat), ពាក្យទាក់ទងគ្នា (piek teak tɔɔŋ knie), ពាក្យសំគាល់ (piek sɑmkoal), ពាក្យសំងាត់ (piek sɑmŋat)
• Korean: 암호 (ko) (amho), 군호 (gunho) (military), 패스워드 (paeseuwodeu), 비밀번호 (ko) (bimilbeonho) ("secret number", also PIN code)
• Kyrgyz: пароль (ky) (parolʹ)

• Lao: ລະຫັດຜ່ານ (lo) (la hat phān)
• Latvian: parole f
• Lithuanian: slaptažodis (lt) m
• Macedonian: јавка f (javka), лозинка f (lozinka)
• Malay: kata laluan (ms)
• Maori: kupu karanga, kupu whakahipa, kupuhipa
• Middle English: wacche word
• Mongolian: нууц үг (nuuts üg), лоозон (mn) (loozon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: passord (no) n

  Nynorsk: passord n

• Old English: lēafnesword n
• Persian: گذرواژه‎ (fa) (gozarvâže)
• Polish: hasło (pl) n, parol (pl) m (archaic)
• Portuguese: senha (pt) f, palavra-passe f
• Romanian: parolă (ro) f
• Russian: паро́ль (ru) m (parólʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: facal-faire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лозинка f, ге̏сло n

  Roman: lòzīnka (sh) f, gȅslo (sh) n

• Slovak: heslo (sk) n
• Slovene: geslo (sl) n
• Spanish: contraseña (es), santo y seña (es)
• Swahili: nywila (sw)
• Swedish: lösen (sv) n, lösenord (sv)
• Tajik: калимаи убур (kalimayi ubur), парол (parol), гузарвожа (guzarvoža)
• Thai: รหัสผ่าน (th) (rá-hàt-pàan), รหัส (th) (rá-hàt)
• Tibetan: གསང་ཚིག (gsang tshig)
• Turkish: parola (tr)
• Turkmen: parol
• Ukrainian: паро́ль (uk) m (parólʹ)
• Urdu: پاسورڈ‎ m (pāsvarḍ), پارلفظ‎
• Uzbek: parol (uz)
• Vietnamese: mật khẩu
• West Frisian: wachtwurd n

computing: string of characters known only to a user

• Afrikaans: wagwoord
• Albanian: fjalëkalimi
• Arabic: كَلِمَةُ الْمُرُور‎ f (kalimatu l-murūr)
• Armenian: գաղտնաբառ (hy) (gałtnabaṙ)
• Basque: pasahitza
• Breton: ger-tremen
• Bulgarian: парола (bg) f (parola)
• Catalan: contrasenya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密碼 (zh), 密码 (zh) (mìmǎ)

• Czech: heslo (cs) n
• Danish: kodeord n, adgangskode (da) c, password (da) n
• Dutch: wachtwoord (nl) n
• Esperanto: pasvorto
• Estonian: salasõna
• Faroese: loyniorð
• Finnish: salasana (fi)
• French: mot de passe (fr) m
• Georgian: პაროლი (ṗaroli)
• German: Passwort (de) n
• Greek: κωδικός (el) m (kodikós), συνθηματικό (el) n (synthimatikó), κωδικός πρόσβασης (el) m (kodikós prósvasis)
• Greenlandic: isissutissaq
• Hebrew: סיסמה‎ (he)
• Hindi: पासवर्ड (pāsvarḍ)
• Hungarian: jelszó (hu)
• Icelandic: lykilorð n, leyniorð n, aðgangsorð n
• Ido: pasovorto (io)
• Indonesian: kata sandi, sandi (id)
• Irish: focal faire, pasfhocal m
• Italian: parola chiave f, password (it) f

• Japanese: パスワード (ja) (pasuwādo)
• Kazakh: құпиясөз (qupïyasöz)
• Korean: 암호 (ko) (amho), 비밀번호 (ko) (bimilbeonho), 통과암호 (tonggwaamho)
• Lao: ລະຫັດຜ່ານ (lo) (la hat phān)
• Latvian: parole f
• Lithuanian: slaptažodis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Passwuert n
• Macedonian: јавка f (javka), лозинка f (lozinka)
• Malagasy: tenimiafina
• Malay: kata laluan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: passord (no) n

  Nynorsk: passord n

• Polish: hasło (pl) n
• Portuguese: senha (pt) f, palavra-passe f, password (pt) f, palavra-chave (pt) f
• Romanian: parolă (ro) f
• Russian: паро́ль (ru) m (parólʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: facal-faire m
• Serbo-Croatian: javka f, lòzīnka (sh) f, gȅslo (sh) n, zápōrka (sh) f
• Slovak: heslo (sk)
• Slovene: geslo (sl)
• Spanish: contraseña (es) f
• Swahili: nywila (sw)
• Swedish: lösenord (sv) n
• Tagalog: password
• Thai: รหัสผ่าน (th) (rá-hàt-pàan)
• Tibetan: གསང་ཚིག (gsang tshig)
• Turkish: şifre (tr)
• Welsh: cyfrinair
• West Frisian: wachtwurd n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} javka f, ^{(please verify)} geslo (sh) n, ^{(please verify)} lozinka (sh) f

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} heslo (sk) n

See also

• passphrase

Verb

password (third-person singular simple present passwords, present participle passwording, simple past and past participle passworded)

1. (computing, transitive) To protect with a password.

Usage notes

• To password protect is the more common expression.

See also

• login
• passphrase
• PIN

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Danish

Etymology

First attested in 1983, borrowed from English password.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɑːsˌwœːd̥]

Noun

password n (singular definite passwordet, plural indefinite password or passwords)

1. (computing) password

Inflection

Declension of password

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	password	passwordet	password passwords	passwordene
genitive	passwords	passwordets	passwords passwords'	passwordenes

Synonyms

• adgangskode, kodeord

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English password.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.zword/, (high-style) /ˈpa.zwørd/
• Rhymes: -azword, (high-style) -azwørd

Noun

password f (invariable)

1. (computing) password

   Synonym: parola d'ordine

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English password

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpaswɐɾd(ə)/

Noun

password f (plural passwords)

1. (computing) password (secret string of characters used to access a system)

   Synonyms: palavra-passe, senha

Further reading

• “password” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2022.

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Spanish

Noun

password m (plural passwords)

1. password

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pass‧word
• IPA^(key): /ˈpaswoɾd/

Noun

password

1. Alternative spelling of pasword

Further reading

• “password” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.