# No plaintext: composed freely by hand

> Still possible: The text has no plaintext; it was composed freely in a personal, language-like idiom, as in glossolalia or automatic writing.

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Answer · Voynich Manuscript

# No plaintext: composed freely by hand

The text has no plaintext; it was composed freely in a personal, language-like idiom, as in glossolalia or automatic writing.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionLiteratureScreened0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: five pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## Evidence 5 for · 2 against

[Adjacent identical and near-identical words are common](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDKN465TE/adjacent-identical-and-near-identical-words-are-common)

Established · weighs some · F-011

FOR

[Adjacent pages share vocabulary, as in languages](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDQJ46FS3/adjacent-pages-share-vocabulary-as-in-languages)

Established · weighs little · F-027

FOR

[Glyph entropy is lower than in any of 103 languages](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDKDA0QEB/glyph-entropy-is-lower-than-in-any-of-103-languages)

Established · weighs some · F-010

FOR

[Word order carries almost no information](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDN405FYV/word-order-carries-almost-no-information)

Established · weighs some · F-017

FOR

[Words spelled alike are used alike](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDMMC3M2G/words-spelled-alike-are-used-alike)

Established · weighs some · F-015

FOR

[Five scribes wrote the text](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDHPM3VVE/five-scribes-wrote-the-text)

Established · weighs some · F-003

AGAINST

[The hands are interchangeable in variant choice](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDPTP36PJ/the-hands-are-interchangeable-in-variant-choice)

Established · weighs heavily · F-024

AGAINST

[Pages group by Currier language and scribe](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDX5T2G54/pages-group-by-currier-language-and-scribe)

Supported · weighs little · F-107

NEUTRAL

## The questions it answers

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

Most likelyA notation or memory system

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). No plaintext: composed freely by hand [Answer ANS0D8G04ZW0AK0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D8G04ZW0AK0
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Key

**ANS** 0D8G04ZW0AK0

Kind

Answer · hypothesis

Origin

Literature

Proposed

[Session 9](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/sessions/SES0D8EPKD059SN/session-9-the-inquiry-framework-the-inductive-battery) · 22 Oct 2026

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