My first Patristocrat
Introduction
This is a Patristocrat: it uses one consistent cipher-to-plain substitution, but it removes all original spaces and punctuation. Ignore the displayed groups of five; they are not words. Make the first guess from a repeated sequence or a frequent letter with useful neighbors, and test a common English fragment across every occurrence, including across group boundaries. Record the tentative mappings in Hypothesis and apply them to the entire stream with Simple substitution. Add word boundaries only when several adjacent fragments support the same grammatical reading. If a boundary or mapping creates contradictions elsewhere, remove it. Continue until one-to-one mappings and the continuous English text agree, then submit the recovered letters; added spacing does not affect verification.
Count overlapping units and compare their distributions.
| Unit | Count | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| U | 131 | 14.4% | 1 |
| N | 85 | 9.4% | 2 |
| D | 79 | 8.7% | 3 |
| Y | 71 | 7.8% | 4 |
| B | 66 | 7.3% | 5 |
| V | 65 | 7.2% | 6 |
| Z | 62 | 6.8% | 7 |
| Q | 47 | 5.2% | 8 |
| E | 36 | 4.0% | 9 |
| I | 32 | 3.5% | 10 |
| K | 31 | 3.4% | 11 |
| O | 30 | 3.3% | 12 |
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OLNFU EQOFU DNUJN VZBYU IYQYN
UDDIO NUKZN DUVCT UXBDU ABBMQ
YWXBD ZNDIE NIDUN FUODQ YNUKT
ABEMZ BXXQG UVDUO DUZUY NVNQB
YBYAL ZBVIZ UXIAS BDKBD DUOUV
NUKZU HIUYE UCVLE DBZZV YLTAB
EMTBI YKVDL TUWQY SQNFW ABTVA
AUNNU DXDUH IUYEQ UZVYK DUEID
DQYWN FDUUB DXBID AUNNU DZNDQ
YWZNU ZNEBC CBYXD VWCUY NZZIE
FVZNF UQYWN QBYVY KEBCC BYKBI
TAUKA UNNUD ZBYAL SFUYN FUQDZ
LCTBA OVNNU DYZXQ NVOOA LUVEF
ODBOB ZUKCV OOQYW UGUDL SFUDU
VYKUJ VCQYU VSQKU SQYKB SVDBI
YKUGU DLBEE IDDUY EUNDU VNZOV
EUZVZ ZUOVD VNUFL OBNFU ZUZCB
GUBDD UCBGU NFUCS FUYUG UDYUQ
WFTBD QYWAU NNUDZ ODBKI EUVZN
DBYWU DWDVC CVNQE VADUV KQYWK
BYBNI ZUNFU ODQYN UKTAB EMZVZ
SBDKO VNNUD YZABY WUDDU OUVNU
KZNDQ YWZVD UZNDB YWUDU GQKUY
EUNFV YQZBA VNUKE BCCBY AUNNU
DZCVQ YNVQY NFUZV CUBYU NBBYU
ZITZN QNINQ BYDIA UZIZU KXBDV
YLCBY BVAOF VTUNQ EEQOF UDVYK
DURUE NVWIU ZZNFV NXBDE UZKIO
AQEVN UOAVQ YNUJN VZZQW YCUYN
ZYUVD NFUUY KIZUO DUXQJ UZZIX
XQJUZ VYKZU YNUYE UDFLN FCNBO
AVEUT BIYKV DQUZG UDQXL NFUEB
YNQYI BIZAU NNUDZ UHIUY EUXQD
ZNEVO QNVAQ PVNQB YZOVE UZVYK
OIYEN IVNQB YEVYT UDUZN BDUKV
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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZThe cipher alphabet must contain exactly 26 letters.