bunco

bunco is a 5-letter English word with 2 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. noun. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

   Synonyms: bunko, con, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting

2. verb. deprive of by deceit

   "He swindled me out of my inheritance"

   "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"

   Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle

Synonyms

bunko, con, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, victimize

Common word forms

buncos, buncoed, buncoes, buncoing

Words from these letters

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