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If you Atbash cipher plus Caesar cipher after, you get a new set of ciphers, and I tried 4-letter words for Atbash plus Caesar shift 1 and I got:

cams <-> yaoi

ghat <-> Utah

haji <-> tars

hasp <-> tail

hemi <-> twos

jail <-> rasp

and a few more.

Why I used <-> instead of -> is because Atbash plus Caesar cipher reverses itself, so if A becomes B, B becomes A.

Definitions of obscure words(in order of pairs above):

Yaoi is a type of anime that has alot of male romance,

Ghat is a flight of steps leading to a river,

Haji is a Muslim who has been to Mecca as a pilgrim,

Hasp is a lock or connection,

Hemi is a prefix meaning half

Do you know any other Atbash plus Caesar pairs of words with shift other than 1?(Atbash cipher a word, and then Caesar cipher it, I surveyed 4-letter words for the 1-shift and got the pairs above.)

Sample Cipher:

Plain Text - abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

1-shifted - azyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcb

There are lots for almost every choice of Caesar shift. (And some for every choice.)

Here are a few examples.

• For a shift of 10, there are no examples (with the deliberately fairly small dictionary I used).


• For the traditional Caesar shift of 3: noon/poop (palindromes!), jury/tile, mice/quay, bile/bury, hog/vow.


• For ROT13: ditto/jetty, debt/jilt, big/leg.


• Some long ones: (9) butter/hopper, pewter/temper, pumice/towage, copper/gutter. (22) corned/theirs. Nothing longer than 6 in the dictionary I used.


• Some that seem to go together one way or another: (5) pal/pet, (8) otto/toot, (9) offer/udder waxy/milk, (11) etch/grid, (12) elf/hag, (15) all/odd glad/idol, (18) carve/prawn, (19) rosy/beau, (20) bite/slap, bats/stab (the reverse of one another!), (21) suck/cask chat/snub, (22) evil/rank, (23) lied/lost bowl/vial.


• 22 also has dry/sex and grind/penis. Sorry.

There are many many more. I think this sort of thing is better done by computer than by hand, and the above were found that way (but of course selected by hand).

This is my 2-shift plus Atbash list(needs cleaning):

abet -> baxi

abed -> baxy

anan -> Bobo

Anna -> boob

anno -> boon

anon -> bono

anti -> boit

axed -> bexy

baby -> abad

bane -> abox

bani -> abot

benj -> axos

bhat -> Aubi

bona -> Anob(backwards)

bond -> Anoy

bonk -> anor

boob -> Anna

boon -> anno

bubo -> Ahan

bund -> ahoy

bunn -> ahoo

born -> Anko(proctor for 2nd part of Chunin Exam)

coni -> znot

conk -> znor

conn -> znoo

ebon -> Xano

exed -> xexy

fund -> whoy

gnar -> VOBK(type of file)

hoax -> unbe

hood -> unny

hobo -> unan

hood -> Unno

ibex -> taxe

inby -> toad

inch -> tozu

info -> town

into -> toin(reverse 2-ltetter pairs!)

jibe -> stax

jinx -> stoe

jinn -> stoo

jots -> snij

juba -> Shab

jube -> shax

junk -> shor

knee -> Roxx

knit -> Roti

knob -> Rona

knot -> Roni

knub -> Roha

knut -> Rohi

need -> Oxxy

neep -> oxxm(structure of pecan and tiger)

nixy -> oted

Noah -> Onbu

noob -> Onna

noon -> Onno

note -> onix

obit -> Nati

onto -> noin

onst -> Noji

onix -> node

oxid -> nety

rone -> Knox

rota -> Knib

Roti -> knit

roto -> knin

ruby -> Khad

runt -> Khoi

shod -> Juny

shoe -> Junx

shin -> Juto

shun -> Juho

sneb -> Joxa

sned -> joxy

snib -> Jota

stab -> Jiba

tabi(Japanese for journey) -> ibat(backwards!)

tabu -> ibah

tang -> ibov

taxi -> Ibet

teed -> Ixxy

thon -> Iuno(Roman for Juno)

toon -> inno(innovation)

town -> info

tost -> inji

toad -> inby

Toby -> inad

tung -> ihov

twin -> ifto

unbe -> hoax

unto -> hoin

vote -> gnix

whow -> funf(German for five)

The only pairs that my word-list counts as both words are info -> town and Anna -> boob, and their reverses.

anan -> Bobo and Anna -> boob are special because they are the same as the 1-shift without atbash.

3-shift coming soon!