Rijletters

Rijletters is a Dutch term used to describe letters arranged in horizontal rows within a grid, table, or sequence of text. The word is formed from rij, meaning row, and letters. In practice, rijletters can refer to any situation where letters are presented in rows rather than as a continuous string or as a vertical stack.

In puzzle culture, rijletters commonly appear in word grids, acrostics, or word-search style grids, where solutions or hidden words are read along rows. The term emphasizes the row-wise organization rather than the content of the letters.

In cryptography and information design, rijletters may describe a row-wise transposition or writing technique: a plaintext is laid out in consecutive rows, and the ciphertext is recovered by reading along rows or columns. Such row-based layouts are a simple form of transposition cipher and also appear in data-entry layouts and barcode-like encodings.

In typography and computational linguistics, rijletters can be used to refer to the practice of arranging letters or tokens in rows for readability, alignment in monospaced displays, or alignment in tabular data.

The term is primarily a descriptive label rather than a formal category, and its exact meaning depends on context. See also: acrostic, word search, transposition cipher, grid cipher, typesetting.