QWERTY

American  

[kwur-tee, kwer-] / ˈkwɜr ti, ˈkwɛr- /

adjective

1. 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.

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qwerty British  

/ ˈkwɜːtɪ /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of QWERTY

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

While it is too early to call whether and when the Qwerty keyboard might follow the ticker-tape and fax machines into obsolescence, the velocity toward voice is accelerating, said Dylan Fox, founder of San Francisco-based Assembly AI, which offers audio models to companies.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Scientific American

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

From Scientific American

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

From Scientific American

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.”

From Washington Post