QWERTY Definition & Meaning

QWERTY

[ kwur-tee, kwer- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to a keyboard having the keys in traditional typewriter arrangement, with the letters q, w, e, r, t, and y being the first six of the top row of alphabetic characters, starting from the left side.

qwerty

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noun

the standard English language typewriter keyboard layout with the characters q, w, e, r, t, and y positioned on the top row of alphabetic characters at the left side of the keyboard

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Origin of QWERTY¹

First recorded in 1925–30

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Example Sentences

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That’s about 20 million times as many possibilities as in the case of “qwerty” and would theoretically takes 20 million times as long.

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The top five are: “password,” “123456,” “123456789,” “guest” and “qwerty.”

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In practice, passwords such as “p4$sW0Rd” or “qwerty” have a much worse entropy than the theoretically calculated one.

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As late as 2014, BlackBerry chief executive John Chen was still insisting that the company’s strategy would “center more and more on the ‘qwerty’ keyboard.”

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"The dedicated qwerty keyboard was an iconic design," he says.

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