# One or two glyphs are nulls

> Ruled out: One or two glyph units are nulls (meaningless insertions); the remaining text is a plain alphabet.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/answers/ANS0D8FZWY254ZW/one-or-two-glyphs-are-nulls  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

---

[Questions](https://mysteriesdept.com/questions)[Voynich Manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript)[Is it a cipher of a known language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG2PB04SQP/is-it-a-cipher-of-a-known-language)Answer

Answer · Voynich Manuscript

# One or two glyphs are nulls

One or two glyph units are nulls (meaningless insertions); the remaining text is a plain alphabet.

**Ruled out** Answers **1** questionDeductiveTested0

## Where it stands

**Ruled out** None pieces of evidence for, one against.

## What it predicts

- deleting the null unit(s) raises conditional character entropy into the attested-language range (at least 2.51 bits)

## Evidence none for · 1 against

[Word-as-letter, periodic transposition, position-keyed alphabets, single nulls and sorted…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDPB24104/word-as-letter-periodic-transposition-position-keyed)

Established · weighs some · F-022

AGAINST

## Tested by 2 runs

| Run | Measured | Result | Against | Decision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUN-012 | max h2 after deleting one glyph unit | 2.403 | Attested minimum 2.51 (languages lose 0.1-0.4 bits when their commonest letter is deleted) | Not supported | 22 Oct |
| RUN-026 | max h2 after deleting one glyph unit | 2.749 | Attested minimum 2.51 (languages lose 0.1-0.4 bits when their commonest letter is deleted) | Consistent | 22 Oct |

## The questions it answers

[Is it a cipher of a known language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG2PB04SQP/is-it-a-cipher-of-a-known-language)

Part of [What kind of text is it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JG1S1G6D9T/what-kind-of-text-is-it)

Most likelyNo answer ahead

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). One or two glyphs are nulls [Answer ANS0D8FZWY254ZW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D8FZWY254ZW
```

Key

**ANS** 0D8FZWY254ZW

Kind

Answer · hypothesis

Origin

Deductive

Proposed

[Session 6](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/sessions/SES0D8C46P04BVW/session-6-phase-2-registered-tests-brute-force-five-surveys) · 22 Oct 2026

Version

1

Added by

[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)

The record

Every record is open data. Take this one as JSON, with its links and its history.

[JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/api/v1/records/ANS0D8FZWY254ZW)