garbledtext

noun

UK /ˈɡɑːbəld tɛkst/

US /ˈɡɑːrbəld tɛkst/

Text that is mixed up and hard to read.

The message arrived as garbledtext, so nobody could understand it.

SYNONYMS

jumbled text scrambled text mangled text distorted text unreadable text

RELATED WORDS

encoding error corruption mojibake typo decryption

OTHER MEANINGS

2. Text that has been corrupted during transmission or storage.

The file opened as garbledtext after the download failed.

3. Text written in a broken or confused way that is hard to follow.

His notes were garbledtext after he typed too fast.

4. Text that appears as random symbols because of a wrong character set.

The website showed garbledtext until we fixed the encoding.