# A plain monoalphabetic substitution of ordinary English, one symbol per letter, read line by line.

> Disputed: A plain monoalphabetic substitution of ordinary English, one symbol per letter, read line by line.

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Answer · Dorabella cipher

# A plain monoalphabetic substitution of ordinary English, one symbol per letter, read line by line.

A plain monoalphabetic substitution of ordinary English, one symbol per letter, read line by line.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** One piece of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Automatic solvers that break 87-letter English substitutions recover readable text.
- The symbol frequencies match English letter frequencies.

## What would rule it out

- Solvers that reliably break controls of the same length fail on Dorabella.

## Evidence 1 for · 2 against

[Symbol frequencies resemble those of a short English text.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dorabella-cipher/evidence/EVD0CRZASB60CXT/symbol-frequencies-resemble-those-of-a-short-english-text)

Suggestive

FOR

[Algorithms that solve English and Latin substitutions of Dorabella's length fail on it.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dorabella-cipher/evidence/EVD0CRZASTT0G94/algorithms-that-solve-english-and-latin-substitutions-of)

Supported

AGAINST

[Several solvers fail on Dorabella while solving 87-letter English controls.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dorabella-cipher/evidence/EVD0CRZASK03P71/several-solvers-fail-on-dorabella-while-solving-87-letter)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What kind of message is the Dorabella note?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dorabella-cipher/questions/QST0CRZARBY7QFA/what-kind-of-message-is-the-dorabella-note)

Most likelyEnglish in Elgar's alphabet with irregularities (phonetic spelling, abbreviations, private words, mirrored…

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). A plain monoalphabetic substitution of ordinary English, one symbol per letter, read line by line. [Answer ANS0CRZAS3C3Q44]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CRZAS3C3Q44
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Key

**ANS** 0CRZAS3C3Q44

Kind

Answer · hypothesis

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