plaintext

noun

plain·​text ˈplān-ˌtekst 

: the intelligible form of an encrypted text or of its elements compare ciphertext

Examples of plaintext in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

However, that process would require a lot of extra work for scrapers that currently just pull down the raw HTML source code of billions of webpages as plaintext, without going to the trouble of simulating a browser’s rendering pipeline. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026

In this case, researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 were able to read enough plaintext data from Google's Password Manager to manipulate the cloud authenticator and access whatever the passkey protected. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

Do not store sensitive credentials in plaintext project files. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026

Common programming languages such as Python or Rust, which contain roughly understandable plaintext commands for arithmetic operations, didn’t exist back then. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for plaintext

• complexed
• deflexed
• perplexed
• pretext
• reflexed
• subtext
• ciphertext
• hypertext
• multiplexed
• teletext
• flexed
• next